London School of Economics (Works of William H

The eighteen years when William Beveridge was Director of the LSE, saw some of the School s greatest expansion. The years between the wars presented a number of problems discussed in this book, such as those of finding space in the heart of London, of the proper scope and method of economics, of academic self-government and of political activity by university readers of social sciences. The last chapter tells of the author s forty years of friendship with Sidney and Beatrice Webb,...
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The eighteen years when William Beveridge was Director of the LSE, saw some of the School s greatest expansion. The years between the wars presented a number of problems discussed in this book, such as those of finding space in the heart of London, of the proper scope and method of economics, of academic self-government and of political activity by university readers of social sciences. The last chapter tells of the author s forty years of friendship with Sidney and Beatrice Webb, using letters between him and them that had not been published before publication of this book in 1960. "