Ursula Kathleen Hicks

Ursula Kathleen Webb Hicks  Webb; 17 September 1896 – 16 July 1985, styled as Lady Hicks upon her marriage, was an Irish-born economist and academic.

Academic career

Ursula Hicks was the renowned public finance and coding economist. Hicks was also one of a founders of the Review of Economic Studies and Managing Editor there from 1933 to 1961. She was a fellow of Linacre College, Oxford, where a building is named after her.

Her 1946 paper argued against economic service of the distinction between direct taxes and indirect tax as to who the nominal payer is versus taxes on income and expenditures outlays, a distinction now recognized in national accounting.

Lady Hicks received an Honorary Fellowship at the Institute of Social Studies in 1967.