February 5th marks the centenary of the birth of the Welsh economist Edward Nevin. Thanks to the generosity of Swansea University, where he was Professor of Economics between 1968 and 1992, an event has been organised between 3:00 PM and 4:30 PM that day to mark the occasion. It can be attended either in person or online.

Tickets are free and can be secured at:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/edward-nevin-and-the-swansea-school-of-economics-tickets-920654029987?aff=oddtdtcreator

The Eventbrite site gives details of the four speakers, who will cover his life and times in chronological order.:

  • Pembroke Dock during the Depression years of the late 1920s and 1930s and War years in the 1940s, when Pembroke Dock was the most blitzed town in Britain relative to its population;
  • Aberystwyth during the years of peace in the 1950s and 1960s, when he, Alan Roe and Jeff Round – who will speak at the event – published their pioneering work on ‘The Structure of the Welsh Economy’;
  • Jamaica during the late 1950s, and the remarkable story of the creation of the Central Bank of Jamaica in the face of what might most politely be described as a rather unhelpful attitude on the part of the British Colonial Office in London, and the launch of the first sovereign bond issued by the Government of Jamaica on Feb 5th 1959 – the first sovereign bond issued by any British colony or former British colony;
  • Swansea during the 1970s and 1980s, when Swansea developed, alongside Cardiff, as the leading centre of education and research on the Welsh economy.