What is John Richard Hicks?
{{Infobox economist | name = Sir John Richard Hicks | school_tradition = [[Neo-Keynesian economics]] | image =John Hicks 1972.jpg | image_size = | caption = Hicks in 1972 |birth_name=John Richard Hicks | birth_date = {{Birth date|1904|04|08|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Warwick]], [[England]], [[United Kingdom|UK]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|1989|5|20|1904|4|8|df=y}} | death_place = [[Blockley]], England, UK | nationality = British | institution = [[Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge]]<br>[[London School of Economics]]<br>[[University of Manchester]]<br>[[Nuffield College, Oxford]] | alma_mater = [[Balliol College, Oxford]] | influences = [[Léon Walras]], [[Friedrich Hayek]], [[Lionel Robbins]], [[Erik Lindahl]], [[John Maynard Keynes]] | influenced = | contributions = [[IS/LM model]]<br>[[Capital (economics)|Capital]] theory, [[consumer theory]], [[general equilibrium theory]], [[welfare theory]], [[induced innovation]] | awards = [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]] (1972) | signature = <!-- file name only --> | repec_prefix = e | repec_id = phi7 }} {{nobelprize|Economics}}[[Knight Bachelor|Sir]] '''John Richard Hicks''' (8 April 1904 – 20 May 1989) was a British [[economist]]. He contributed to the fields of [[consumer theory|consumer demand theory]] in [[microeconomics]]. In 1937, he developed the [[IS/LM model]] which summarizes a [[Keynesian]] view of [[macroeconomics]]. His book ''[[Value and Capital]]'' (1939) significantly extended [[general equilibrium theory|general-equilibrium]] and value theory. The [[compensated demand function]] is named the Hicksian demand function in memory of him. He was made a Knight Bachelor in 1964.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/43250/pages/1563 |title= Notice of Investiture|author=The Home Office |date=14 January 1964 |work=London Gazette |publisher=HMSO |accessdate=22 April 2011}}</ref> In 1972 he received the [[Nobel Pri