What is Robert Neild?
[[File:Robert Neild (1967).jpg|thumb|Robert Neild (1967)]] '''Robert Ralph Neild''' (10 September 1924 &ndash; 18 December 2018) was an British economist. He was born in [[Hertfordshire]], England. He was Professor of [[Economics]] at [[Cambridge University]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Martin|first=Robert|title=Radical Proposals For Funding Government Debt|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5fM9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=-EgMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4605,6462700&dq=robert-neild+professor&hl=en|access-date=21 November 2010|newspaper=[[The Glasgow Herald]]|date=27 June 1979}}</ref> He was Deputy Director of the [[National Institute for Economic and Social Research]], he was in 1966 appointed as founding Director (with [[Alva Myrdal]] and then [[Gunnar Myrdal]] as chairman) of the [[Stockholm International Peace Research Institute]] (SIPRI).<ref>{{cite book|title=Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law 2000|year=2000|publisher=Martinus Nijhoff Publishers|isbn=978-90-411-1403-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cyTPDlr1EtEC&dq=%22Robert+Neild%22+emeritus&pg=PA570|author=Jochen Abr Frowein|author2=Rüdiger Wolfrum |author3=Christiane Philipp |access-date=21 November 2010|page=570}}</ref> He also wrote ''Public Corruption: The Dark Side of Social Evolution'' (Anthem Press). He died on 18 December 2018 at the age of 94.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/229689/neild |title=Neild |access-date=2018-12-26 |archive-date=2018-12-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225052749/http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/229689/neild |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Neild, Robert}} [[Category:1924 births]] [[Category:2018 deaths]] [[Category:British economists]] [[Category:Writers from Hertfordshire]] {{bio-stub}}