Arnold Plant
Sir Arnold Plant was a British economist.
Plant was born in Hoxton, London, the son of a municipal librarian, William Charles Plant, and Thomasine Emily Plant.
After attending Strand School, he worked for a mechanical engineering organisation.
At the advice of William Piercy, he set out to learn about management.
He obtained a BCom degree and a BSc degree in Economics from the London School of Economics.
He worked as a professor at the University of Cape Town
and at the London School of Economics.
Plant's 1934 paper on patents, "The Economic Theory Concerning Patents for Inventions", is considered a classic.
In 1947, he was knighted.
He died in 1978. His widow, Edith, Lady Plant, died a decade later.*
