Robin Murray (economist), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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English economist, 1940-2017
Date of Birth: 14-Sep-1940
Date of Death: 29-May-2017
Profession: economist
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Robin Murray (economist)
- Robin Murray (14 September 1940 – 29 May 2017) was an industrial and environmental economist and social entrepreneur who advocated and implemented new forms of production and organisation, based on principles of ecological sustainability, social justice and democracy.
- He developed his thought through practical projects and experiments.
- A common thread throughout his work was how collaboration, rather than competition, could be a driving force behind economic development and provide the foundation for non-exploitative and egalitarian societies. Robin Murray influenced in profound ways how people eat, shop, and work, how we create and handle waste.
- He was an important and influential member of the democratic-socialist movement in Britain, playing a key role in setting up pioneering organisations such as Twin and Twin Trading (an alternative trading and development organisation from which emerged farmer-owned Fairtrade companies Cafédirect, Divine Chocolate and Liberation Nuts), the London Food Commission and The London Climate Change Agency.
- He also played a significant role as a policymaker, first as Chief Economic Advisor to the Greater London Council in the early 1980s and later in the 1990s in shaping London’s waste strategy.
- While working on these practical initiatives he taught at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, and later at the London School of Economics and Schumacher College.
- Over the years he published ground-breaking articles, including those describing the emergent concepts of post-Fordism, zero-waste and social innovation.
- He was awarded posthumously the Albert Medal of the Royal Society of Arts in October 2017, for "pioneering work in social innovation".
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