Donald Norman Winch, FRHistS, FBA (15 April 1935 – 12 June 2017) was a British economist and academic.
He was Professor of the History of Economics at the University of Sussex from 1969 to 2000, and its Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Arts and Social Studies) from 1986 to 1989.
[1] Having received state scholarship,[3] he studied economics at the London School of Economics, University of London, and graduated with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in 1956.
[1] He received a scholarship to pursue graduate studies at Princeton University, where he received a Ph.D. in economics in 1960 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled "The political economy of colonization: a study in the development of the attitude of the English classical school to Empire.
"[4][1][3] In 1981, he was one of the 364 economists who signed a letter to The Times condemning Geoffrey Howe's 1981 Budget.