Lionel Robbins / Susan Howson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howson, Susan, 1945-

Series:

Historical perspectives on modern economics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Robbins, Lionel Robbins, Baron, 1898-1984.

Robbins, Lionel Robbins.

Economists--Great Britain--Biography.

Economists.

Economics.

Great Britain.

Economics--Great Britain.

World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects.

World War, 1939-1945.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 1161 pages : illustrations map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Summary:

"The first full biography of a major 20th century English economist who played a major role in the development of economics as an academic subject, especially at the London School of Economics, in economic policy, especially in Britain during the Second World War, in higher education in the 1960s and in the administration of the arts in Britain, especially at the National Gallery and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Father and son 11

2 The Great War 25

3 Postwar 51

4 The London School of Economics 68

5 Iris Gardiner 103

6 New College Oxford 126

7 The young professor 166

8 Fritz and Lionel 206

9 The School in the mid-1930s 242

10 The approach of war 294

11 The economics of war 342

12 Director of the Economic Section 387

13 Anglo-American conversations 424

14 The Law Mission and the Steering Committee 462

15 1944 495

16 The last months of the war 553

17 The postwar settlement 587

18 Return to the School 642

19 The end of the transition 681

20 LSE in the early 1950s 712

21 Chairman of the National Gallery 760

22 Lord Robbins 826

23 The Robbins Report 858

24 The sixties 897

25 The arts 941

26 The troubles at LSE 975

27 Retirement 1022.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107002449

1107002443

OCLC:

699378995