Andrew Glyn, perhaps the leading leftwing economist in the UK for the past 30 years, died on December 22 aged 64, shortly after the diagnosis of a brain tumour.

In his influential first book with Bob Sutcliffe, British Capitalism, Workers and the Profits Squeeze (1972), he lifted leftwing econ­omics out of sectarian Marxist theory into the lang­uage of modern economics and political economy.