Marjorie Deane

Marjorie Deane (1914 – 2 October 2008) was a British financial journalist and author, who worked for The Economist from 1947 to 1989, and has been called "a pathbreaker for female financial journalists" by Paul Volcker, the former chairman of the US Federal Reserve.

Early life Marjorie Deane was born in 1914 in Manchester. She was educated there at Withington Girls' School, followed by a degree in mathematics at London University. She was initially hired as a statistician, and although The Economist were relatively enlightened employers, this did not extend to equal pay in her earlier years; according to the editor Geoffrey Crowther, "You can hire a first-rate woman for the price of a second-rate man".

Selected publications Economic ties in the free world. Friends of Atlantic Union, 1953. Stagflation, Britain's way out. The Economist Newspaper Ltd, 1971. ISBN 0850580110. The Central Banks (with Robert Pringle). Hamish Hamilton, 1994. ISBN 0241133262