ABSTRACT
Jonathan Roberts Tyson Hughes was Professor of Economics and the first Robert E. and Emily King Professor of Business Institutions at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. He was born in Wenatchee, Washington in 1928, grew up in Twin Falls, Idaho, and was educated at Utah State Agricultural College (B.S., 1950), in the graduate economics program at the University of Washington, and at the University of Oxford (D. Phil., 1955) on a Rhodes Scholarship. After a time at the New York Federal Reserve Bank he joined the Economics Department at Purdue in 1956 and moved to Northwestern in 1966, where he was based until his death in Evanston in 1992. Hughes returned to Oxford as a Visiting Fellow on two occasions, in 1962-3 at Nuffield College and in 1971-2 at All Souls College. He was President of the Economic History Association in 1981.
