Foxwell, Herbert Somerton, (17 June 1849–3 Aug. 1936), President of Royal Economic Society; Fellow and Director of Economic Studies of St John’s College, Cambridge; Emeritus Professor of Political Economy in the University of London; Hon. Governor of the London School of Economics

Michio Morishima was one of the most distinguished economic theorists of his generation. He taught in Japan at Kyoto and Osaka Universities and in the UK at the University of Essex and the London School of Economics, where he spent the last thirty-four years of his very creative life. Morishima was a Visiting Professor at the University of Essex, 1968–9 and the Keynes Visiting Professor there, 1969–70, and Professor of Economics, later the John Hicks Professor of Economics, at the LSE. He was a Senior Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, where his friend and mentor Sir John Hicks, FBA was the Drummond Professor of Political Economy. Morishima also held a visiting position at the University of Siena in Italy for nearly thirty years from 1970. He was elected Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1975) and of the American Economic Association (1979).

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Isaac Schapera 1905–2003

Proceedings of the British Academy Volume 130, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, IV ◽

10.5871/bacad/9780197263501.003.0008 ◽

2005 ◽

Author(s):

Adam Kuper

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

South African ◽

Turn Of The Century ◽

London School ◽

Founding Fathers ◽

Graduate Seminar ◽

Northern Cape ◽

London School Of Economics ◽

University Of Cape Town ◽

The University

Isaac Schapera (1905–2003), a Fellow of the British Academy, spent the second half of his long life in London but remained very much a South African. His parents immigrated to South Africa at the turn of the century from what is now Belarus, and settled in Garies, a small town in the semi-desert district of Little Namaqualand, in the Northern Cape. As an undergraduate at the University of Cape Town, Schapera was introduced to ‘British social anthropology’ by A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, one of the founding fathers of the discipline, the other being Bronislaw Malinowski. He then became one of the first members of Malinowski’s post-graduate seminar at the London School of Economics. Towards the end of his career, Schapera preferred to describe himself as an ethnographer rather than as an anthropologist. His research in the 1930s and 1940s was distinguished by a concern with ‘social change’, a focus endorsed in South Africa by Malinowski in London.

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Edward Shils and his Portraits

The calling of social thought ◽

10.7228/manchester/9781526120052.003.0011 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 191-201

Author(s):

Bryan S. Turner

Keyword(s):

Intellectual Development ◽

Max Weber ◽

London School ◽

University Of Chicago ◽

Corporate University ◽

Depth Study ◽

History Of ◽

Edward Shils ◽

London School Of Economics ◽

The University

Edward Shils’ Portraits offers various intellectual biographies of major figures that played a large role in his life, mainly at the University of Chicago. The list is diverse including economists, sociologists, natural scientists, and historians of the ancient world. The diversity illustrates the breadth of Shils’ academic work. The famous Committee for Social Thought was a key institution in Shils’ intellectual development and, while Portraits can be read as a history of the University of Chicago during the twentieth century, Shils was a trans-Atlantic intellectual with close connections to Peterhouse College Cambridge and the London School of Economics. Portraits is a celebration of the Chicago tradition created by Robert Maynard Hutchins University President (1929-1945) for the in-depth study of ‘great books’, but Shils concludes with a nostalgic reflection on the end of the ‘age of books’. The narrative is haunted by the figure of Max Weber, whose rationalization thesis has been borne out with the rise of the bureaucratic corporate university and the narrow specialization of research.

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University of East Africa Conferences on Public Policy: II. East African Federation

The Journal of Modern African Studies ◽

10.1017/s0022278x00003773 ◽

1964 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 120-122

Author(s):

Ronald Watts

Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

East Africa ◽

Trade Unions ◽

The United States ◽

London School ◽

Columbia University ◽

Public Issues ◽

Southern Rhodesia ◽

London School Of Economics ◽

The University

This was the second in a series of three conferences on public policy, organised by the University of East Africa and financed by the Ford Foundation, whose aim is to bring together policy-makers and academics for discussions on major public issues.In attendance were delegations, of at least a dozen each, from Uganda, Kenya, and Tanganyika, consisting mainly of Cabinet Ministers, parliamentary secretaries, other M.P.s, and civil servants, as well as representatives of public corporations, political parties, and trade unions. Small delegations from Ethiopia, Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Southern Rhodesia, and Zanzibar were also invited. A group of 10 ‘visiting specialists’ from overseas with experience of federal systems and problems elsewhere were invited to take part. Among these were six economists: Ursula Hicks and Arthur Hazlewood from Oxford, Pitamber Pant of the Indian Planning Commission, Vladimir Kollontai from Moscow, Jan Auerhan from Prague, and Benton Massell (who was unable to attend but contributed a paper) from the United States. The others were a lawyer, S. A. de Smith from the London School of Economics, and three political scientists, Arthur MacMahon of Columbia University, A. H. Birch from Hull University, and myself. A group of a dozen ‘local specialists’ drawn mainly from E.A.C.S.O. and from the economists, lawyers, and political scientists at the University Colleges in East Africa also presented papers and played a significant role in the discussions. The total number of participants, including 22 observers, amounted to over 90.

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