Sir George Paish (7 November 1867 – 1 May 1957)[1][2] was a British liberal economist of international renown,[3] author of The Defeat of Chaos (1941), as well as Railways in Great Britain (1904), and co-author of Road To Prosperity in 1927.

[4] He advocated the free market prior to the First World War,[5] and was at one point advisor to the head of the British Treasury.

[5] His wife died in 1933, and Paish married again on 30 September 1936 to Anita Carolyn Rouse.

[1] Paish died on 1 May 1957 in a nursing home at Wexham in Buckinghamshire.

[1] He was active for the Liberal Party and stood three times for them as a parliamentary candidate, in 1922 and 1935.