What is Basil Yamey?
[[File:Basil Yamey.jpg|thumb|Basil Yamey]] '''Basil S. Yamey''', [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] (4 May 1919<ref>{{cite web|title=World Connect|url=http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:a43826&id=I372|access-date=22 August 2013}}</ref> &ndash; 9 November 2020) was a South African economist. He was born in [[Cape Town]] in [[South Africa]]. For many years he was a Professor at the [[London School of Economics]]. He was a part-time member of the [[Competition Commission|Monopolies and Mergers Commission]] from 1966 to 1978. Yamey died on 9 November 2020 in Cape Town at the age of 101.<ref>[https://iea.org.uk/a-trip-down-memory-lane/ A trip down memory lane]</ref> ==Related pages== *[[List of scientists from Africa]] ==References== {{reflist}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Yamey, Basil}} [[Category:1919 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:South African writers]] [[Category:Economists]] [[Category:People from Cape Town]] [[Category:Academics of the University of London]] {{bio-stub}}