British wartime economists mostly returned to academia after 1945

Evidence

The British wartime economy was run with the assistance of many senior British economists, but the great majority returned to academic life in 1945 and 1946 to rebuild their departments and extend the discipline. Ely Devons returned to teach in Manchester but wrote up his four years’ experience in the planning department of the Ministry of Aircraft Production as Planning in Practice. This fascinating work details the increasingly complex business of building aircraft, which, throughout the war, “competed” in a very direct way with German, Japanese, and Italian products. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 407