George Lennox Sharman Shackle and Catherine Shackle

George Lennox Sharman Shackle (1903-1992) was born in Cambridge, and educated at the Perse School. He was unable for financial reasons to take up a place at St Catharine's College in 1920, and found employment in a bank, and later as a schoolmaster. While working he studied for an external degree from London University, which he obtained in 1931.

In 1934 Shackle won a Leverhulme Research Scholarship to the London School of Economics (taken up in January 1935), where his supervisor was F.A. Hayek. After hearing a lecture by Joan Robinson at a seminar in Cambridge in 1935, he obtained permission from Hayek to study the ideas of Keynes, and wrote as his doctoral dissertation (1937) what became his first published book, Expectations, investment and income (1938). In March 1937 he joined the Oxford University Institute of Statistics as research assistant to Henry Phelps Brown, and the work done in his two years there resulted in a dissertation for an Oxford D.Phil. degree (1940).

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