Langford Lovell Price was an English

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 economist

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, born in London

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. He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford

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, in 1888 became fellow and treasurer of Oriel, and was Newmarch lecturer in statistics

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 at University College, London in 1895-96. In 1897 he was governor of Dulwich College

Dulwich College

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and in 1898 was appointed an examiner in the moral sciencos tripos at Cambridge.

Writings

Price's writings include:

• Industrial Peace (1897)
• A Short History of Political Economy in England (1891; second edition, 1896)
• Money and its Relation to Prices (1896; third edition, 1909)
• Economic Science and Practice (1896)
• A Short History of English Commerce and Industry (1900)
• The Position and Prospects of the Study of Economic History (1908)
• Co-operation and Co-partnership (1913)