Sir John Richard Hicks (April 8, 1904 – May 20, 1989) was one of the most important and influential economists of the twentieth century. His most familiar contributions in the field of economics were the IS/LM model, which summarised the Keynesian view of macroeconomics, and his statement of consumer demand theory in microeconomics. In 1972, Hicks was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics with Kenneth Arrow for "pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory."[LINK: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1972/index.html] [1] Timeline · He was born in 1904 at Warwick, England. · He was educated at Clifton College (1917-22) and at Balliol College, Oxford (1922-26), an expensive education financed by mathematical scholarships. · During his school days, and in his first year at Oxford, he was a mathematical specialist. But he was not c