Bio: (1897–1988) British economist, sociologist, and criminologist. Barbara Wooton was educated at Girton College, Cambridge, and at the London School of Economics, and lectured at Girton College,  University of London, Bedford College, and Cambridge. She served on four Royal Commissions, and from 1959 to 1964 was President of the British Sociological Association. Wootton made significant contributions to the fields of social policy, wage policy, inflation, social work, delinquency, and inequality.

Main works

Lament for Economics (1938); 

End Social Inequality (1941);

Freedom Under Planning (1945); 

The Social Foundations of Wage Policy (1955)

Social Science and Social Pathology (1959); 

Crime and the Criminal Law (1964);

Incomes Policy (1974).