Richard A. Radford (1919 – 7 November 2006) was a British-born American economist who served in the International Monetary Fund and became widely known for his 1945 article on prisoner-of-war camp economics.
When World War II broke out, Radford left the university and enlisted as a soldier in the British Army.
He fought in the Allies' North African Campaign but was captured in Libya by the German forces in 1942 and spent the remainder of the war years in the Stalag VII-A prisoner-of-war camp, in southern Bavaria.
In 1947, he moved to Washington, D.C., to join the International Monetary Fund, while he also started teaching economics at the Johns Hopkins University.
He died on 7 November 2006 at the Maplewood Park Place retirement home in Bethesda, Maryland, from complications of open aortic surgery.