ABSTRACT
Hans Singer was born in 1910 and studied economics at Bonn University, where he was taught by Joseph Schumpeter among others. When the National Socialists came to power in 1933 he broke off his doctoral studies and left Germany, ending up in Istanbul along with Wilhelm Röpke. Through his connection with Schumpeter he was able to move to Cambridge, where he completed a Ph.D. He then joined the Pilgrim Trust Survey of unemployment, which led him to Manchester where he subsequently became a Lecturer, teaching there together with John Hicks through the war. The interview covers the period up to the time that he went to the University of Glasgow. Hans Singer has contributed a biographical essay on his work related to economic development at the UN and the ILO to P.Arestis and M.Sawyer (eds), A Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists, Edward Elgar, Aldershot, 1992, pp. 526-32. The following extract is from an interview conducted in Sir Hans’ office at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, 8 June 1994.
