Arthur Joseph Brown, CBE, FBA (8 August 1914 – 28 February 2003) was an English economist who was Professor of Economics at the University of Leeds.
Though born in Alderley in Cheshire on 8 August 1914, Brown was raised in Yorkshire where he attended Bradford Grammar School.
[1] He remained at All Souls until 1946, but left his lectureship in 1940 when (during the Second World War) he joined the Foreign Research and Press Service, transferring in 1943 to the Foreign Office Research Department and then finally (in 1945) to the Economic Section of the Cabinet Office.
[3] Brown left government service in 1947 to become Professor of Economics at the University of Leeds, where he remained until his retirement in 1979.
Brown wrote Applied Economics: Aspects of the World Economy in War and Peace (1948), The Great Inflation, 1939–1951 (1955),[4] The Framework Of Regional Economics In The United Kingdom (1972) and World Inflation Since 1950: An International Comparative Study (with Jane Darby, 1985).