COHEN, RUTH LOUISA

COHEN, RUTH LOUISA
COHEN, RUTH LOUISA (1906–1991), British economist, specializing in the field of agricultural economics. The granddaughter of louis lionel cohen , she was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge, and was a teaching fellow at Stanford and Cornell universities in the U.S. from 1930 to 1932. Upon her return to England, she became a research officer of the Agricultural Economics Research Institute at Oxford (1933–39). She returned to Newnham College in 1939 and served as its principal from 1954 until 1972. She was chairman of the Committee on Provincial Agricultural Economics in 1957. In addition   to numerous articles, her writings include History of Milk Prices (1936) and Economics of Agriculture (1939). -ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY: ODNB online. (Joachim O. Ronall)

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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