Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Father and Son; 2 The Great War; 3 Postwar; 4 The London School of Economics; 5 Iris Gardiner; 6 New College Oxford; 7 The Young Professor; 8 Fritz and Lionel; 9 The School in the Mid-1930s; APPENDIX: ROBBINS'S ANSWERS TO POUND'S QUESTIONNAIRE SEPTEMBER 1934; 10 The Approach of War; 11 The Economics of War; 12 Director of the Economic Section; 13 Anglo-American Conversations; 14 The Law Mission and the Steering Committee; 15 1944; 16 The Last Months of the War; 17 The Postwar Settlement; 18 Return to the School and 19 The End of the Transition20 LSE in the Early 1950s; 21 Chairman of the National Gallery; 22 Lord Robbins; 23 The Robbins Report; 24 The Sixties; 25 The Arts; 26 The Troubles at LSE; 27 Retirement; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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
