My father, Peter Riach, who has died aged 86, was professor and head of the economics department at De Montfort University, Leicester, from 1987 to 2000. He was also a passionate advocate for equality in the labour market, initially on women’s rights and then on all forms of discrimination, including that based on race and age. His academic research to uncover such discrimination was widely appreciated.
A profoundly Keynesian economist, it was significant to Peter that, having returned permanently to central London from his native Australia in the 1980s, he lived only streets away from the former home of the economist John Maynard Keynes and other members of the Bloomsbury set who so inspired his convictions.
