About Andrew Cumbers
Andrew Cumbers was a political economist, writer, geographer, university teacher and economic geographer.
Andrew David Cumbers is a British economic geographer. He is Professor of Political Economy at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow.
He is a former editor-in-chief of the academic journal Urban Studies.
Cumbers earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Wales and completed his PhD in geography at Durham University in 1991.
He won the 2015 Gunnar Myrdal Prize (since renamed the Joan Robinson Prize) for his book, Reclaiming Public Ownership: Making Space for Economic Democracy.
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