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1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 1161 Seiten) :
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ISBN:
978-1-139-00354-4
Series Statement:
Historical perspectives on modern economics
Content:
By the time of his death the English economist Lionel Robbins (1898-1984) was celebrated as a 'renaissance man'. He made major contributions to his own academic discipline and applied his skills as an economist not only to practical problems of economic policy - with conspicuous success when he served as head of the economists advising the wartime coalition government of Winston Churchill in 1940-45 - and of higher education - the 'Robbins Report' of 1963 - but also to the administration of the visual and performing arts that he loved deeply. He was devoted to the London School of Economics, from his time as an undergraduate following active service as an artillery officer on the Western Front in 1917-18, through his years as Professor of Economics (1929-62), and his stint as chairman of the governors during the 'troubles' of the late 1960s. This comprehensive biography, based on his personal and professional correspondence and other papers, covers all these many and varied activities
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Father and son -- The Great War -- Postwar -- The London School of Economics -- Iris Gardiner -- New College Oxford -- The young professor -- Fritz and Lionel -- The School in the mid-1930s -- The approach of war -- The economics of war -- Director of the Economic Section -- Anglo-American conversations -- The Law Mission and the Steering Committee -- 1944
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-1-107-00244-9
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Political Science
Keywords:
Lord 1898-1984 Robbins, Lionel
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Biografie
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139003544
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