Economists' Walk No. 5: Hampstead the Walk Begins at Hampstead Tube
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Economists’ Walk No. 5: Hampstead The walk begins at Hampstead tube left into Branch Hill. William Stanley station (1). Cross the road and turn Jevons lived at 2 The Chestnuts, right into Holly Hill opposite the tube Branch Hill (2) from 1876-1882 while station, keeping to the faster rising Professor of Economics at UCL. The pathway on the left, and then turn left house, now a hostel, bears a blue into Mount Vernon. Francis Ysidro plaque to one of its later residents, Edgeworth lived in two small rooms at Paul Robeson. Like Edgeworth, a No 5 from 1869 onwards, holding a believer in mathematical modelling in Professorship in Political Economy at economics, he argued for economics Kings College between 1888 and 1891. grounded in a utility-based theory of Inventor of the indifference curve and value and was a pioneer in practical profound contributor to theories of application of statistics to economic exchange, he also made important questions. He died in a swimming contributions to statistical theory. accident in 1882 and is buried in Hampstead cemetery half a mile south At the end of the road turn right into west of here. Frognal and continue along it, bearing Continue along Branch Hill and turn Aylmer Fisher moved here with his right into West Heath Rd, keeping to family in 1896 – the house bears a blue the path on the left side of the road. At plaque to his memory (as well as the pond, turn left taking the left fork another to philanthropist and soap into North End Way. After about two magnate, Viscount Leverhulme). Fisher, hundred yards you come to Inverforth who developed the application of t and House (3) on the left. As a boy Ronald F tests to regression analysis and first proposed maximum likelihood Pearson and his young son, Egon estimation, was born a few miles north Pearson. Karl Pearson, professor of of here in Finchley. eugenics at UCL and discoverer of the chi-squared test and the method of Retrace your steps to Whitestone Pond moments, was born a couple of miles and continue ahead down Heath St. east of here in the district of Holloway. Turn left and left again into Well Rd. A Egon Pearson, also at UCL, developed blue plaque can be found on the house the theory of hypothesis testing with at 7 Well Road (4) occupied by Karl colleague Jerzy Neyman. At this point you have a choice. and finish the walk at your starting Returning to Heath St you can turn right point. Alternatively, if you want another 30-40 minutes walk continue to the end of Well Rd, turn right into East When you reach Haverstock Hill, turn Heath Rd and continue into South End left and continue for 10 minutes along Rd. Cross the square and continue into Haverstock Hill and then Chalk Farm Rd Fleet Rd, turning right when you reach until you reach Camden Lock. Turn left Southampton Rd. Karl Marx, economist into Jamestown Rd and left again at the and social theorist, lived at 9 Grafton end left into Oval Rd (6) where William Terrace (5), which you pass on the left, Stanley Jevons lived as a student in from 1856 to 1864. Proceeding on along the mid nineteenth century at No 9. At Maitland Park Villas you come to the end turn left and left again into Maitland Park Road where Marx and Parkway. You pass Albert St on the family lived from 1875 onwards and right where Jevons also lived as a where he died in 1883. (The road is student at No 13. The walk concludes since clearly redeveloped). Marx is at Camden Town tube station two stops buried in Highgate cemetery a mile or north of UCL. so north of here. .