Evan Frank Mottram Durbin

Evan Frank Mottram Durbin was a British economist and Labour Party politician, whose writings combined a belief in central economic planning with a conviction that the price mechanism of markets was indispensable.
Durbin was an influential thinker on economic policy within the Labour Party. Historian David Kynaston described Durbin as "the Labour Party's most interesting thinker of the 1940s and arguably of the twentieth century".