The Author

W H HUTT was born in London in 1899 and after First World War service in the RFC and RAF as a pilot (1917–19), studied at the London School of Economics, where he took the B Com degree. After four years in publishing, he joined the University of Cape Town in February 1928 as Senior Lecturer. In 1931 he was appointed Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Commerce, and later also Director of the Graduate School of Business, which he inaugurated. He was elected Professor Emeritus in 1965.

Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Virginia, 1966; subsequent appointments at Rockford College, Wabash College, Texas A and M University and the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University (as visiting Research Fellow). From September 1970 Distinguished Visiting Professor of Economics, California State College.

Professor Hutt has published numerous articles and several books, including The Theory of Collective Bargaining (1930, republished in the USA 1954), Economists and the Public (1936), The Theory of Idle Resources (1939), Plan for Reconstruction (1943), Keynesianism — Retrospect and Prospect (1963), The Economics of the Colour Bar (1964).