Obituary of John Cornwall

CORNWALL, John Lally, FRSC, Passed away peacefully Thursday, December 4, 2008 in the VG Site, QEII, Halifax. Born April 27, 1928, in Spencer, Iowa, to Russell Morgan and Inez (Lally) Cornwall, he was the fifth of six children. John graduated from the University of Iowa with a B.A. in Economics in 1950, received a M.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics in 1952, and completed his Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard in 1958. During his career he received numerous honours, fellowships, and awards, including a Ford Foundation Fellowship and a Fulbright Fellowship. He was a professor at Dalhousie University from 1976 until 1993, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He was the author of 10 books and many articles, with his first major book, Growth and Stability in a Mature Economy published in 1975, and his most recent, Capitalist Development in the 20th Century: An Evolutionary-Keynesian Analysis (co-authored with Wendy Cornwall), published in 2001. John was passionate about economics and its importance to society. He had a love of gardening, travelling, music, and life in general. He will be greatly missed by his wife, Wendy, Halifax; his daughters, Anne (Lowell Blood) and Paula, Halifax; his son, Morgan (Patricia) and grandson, Logan, Port Royal; sisters, Marian, Iowa City, Iowa; Patricia, York, Neb.; Clare, Spencer, Iowa; and Margaret, Oakland, Calif. He was predeceased by his sister, Barbara. There will be no memorial service by request. Donations in John's memory can be made to the Dalhousie University Department of Economics.