Metadata : Shonfield, Sir Andrew Akiba, 1917-1981, Knight, economist
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- LSE Library: The London School of Economics and Political Science
- Holding institution (official language):
- LSE Library: The London School of Economics and Political Science
- Postal address:
- 25 Southampton Buildings London Greater London United Kingdom WC2A 1PH
- Phone number:
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 7405 7686
- Web address:
- http://www.lse.ac.uk/library
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- LSE Library: The London School of Economics and Political Science
- Holding institution (official language):
- LSE Library: The London School of Economics and Political Science
- Postal address:
- 25 Southampton Buildings London Greater London United Kingdom WC2A 1PH
- Phone number:
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 7405 7686
- Web address:
- http://www.lse.ac.uk/library
- Reference number:
- Shonfield
- Title:
- Shonfield, Sir Andrew Akiba, 1917-1981, Knight, economist
- Title (official language):
- Shonfield, Sir Andrew Akiba, 1917-1981, Knight, economist
- Creator/accumulator:
- Shonfield, Sir, Andrew Akiba, 1917-1981, Knight, economist
- Date(s):
- 1940/1980
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 100 boxes
- Scope and content:
- Papers of Sir Andrew Akiba Shonfield, [1940-1980], comprising working papers, manuscript notes and research material for Shonfield's work, including drafts and final masters of published books.
- Archival history:
- Given by the family in 1984.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Andrew Shonfield, political economist, was born in 1917 at Tadworth, Surrey, the son of Rabbi Victor Schonfeld, of north London, and his wife, Rachel Lea, daughter of Josef Sternberg, of Budapest. Shonfield was educated at the Jewish secondary school founded by his father, before attending St Paul’s and Magdalen College, Oxford University; served World War Two, 1939-45, in the Royal Artillery, 1940-46; on staff, _Financial Times_, 1947-57; Foreign Editor, _Financial Times_, 1950-57; Economic Editor, _The Observer_, 1958-61; Director of Studies, 1961-68, Research Fellow, 1969-71, and Director, 1972-77, Royal Institute of International Affairs; Chairman, Social Science Research Council, 1969-71; Member, Royal Commission on Trade Unions, 1965-68; Member, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Review Committee on Overseas Representation, 1968-69; Reith Lecturer, 1972; Fellow, Imperial College of Science and Technology, 1970; Knight 1978; Professor of Economics, European University Institute, Florence, 1978-1981; died 1981.Publications:_International economic relations: the western system in the 1960s and 1970s_ (Sage Publications, London, 1976); _European integration in the second phase: the scope and limitiations of alliance points_ (University of Essex, 1977); ed Zuzanna Shonfield _The use of public power_ (Oxford University Press, 1982); ed Zuzanna Shonfield _In defence of the mixed economy_ (Oxford University Press, London, 1984); editor of _Social indicators and social policy_ (Heinemann Educational Books, London, 1972); _North American and Western European economic policies _(Macmillan, London, 1971); _The attack on world poverty_ (Chatto and Windus, London, 1960); _British economic policy since the War_ (Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1958); _Europe: journey to an unknown destination_ (Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1973); _A man beside himself _(Andre Deutsch, London, 1964); _Modern capitalism: the changing balance of public and private power _(Oxford University Press, London, 1969).
- Access points: persons/families:
- Shonfield, Andrew Akiba
- Access, restrictions:
- Closed until listed.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue see https://archives.lse.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=SHONFIELD
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Sources: Who's Who 1897-1996 (A & C Black, 1996); British Library On-Line Public Access Catalogue 97; Historical Manuscripts Commission National Register of Archives. Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
- British Library of Political and Economic Science
- Reference number:
- Shonfield
- Title:
- Shonfield, Sir Andrew Akiba, 1917-1981, Knight, economist
- Title (official language):
- Shonfield, Sir Andrew Akiba, 1917-1981, Knight, economist
- Creator/accumulator:
- Shonfield, Sir, Andrew Akiba, 1917-1981, Knight, economist
- Date(s):
- 1940/1980
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 100 boxes
- Scope and content:
- Papers of Sir Andrew Akiba Shonfield, [1940-1980], comprising working papers, manuscript notes and research material for Shonfield's work, including drafts and final masters of published books.
- Archival history:
- Given by the family in 1984.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Andrew Shonfield, political economist, was born in 1917 at Tadworth, Surrey, the son of Rabbi Victor Schonfeld, of north London, and his wife, Rachel Lea, daughter of Josef Sternberg, of Budapest. Shonfield was educated at the Jewish secondary school founded by his father, before attending St Paul’s and Magdalen College, Oxford University; served World War Two, 1939-45, in the Royal Artillery, 1940-46; on staff, _Financial Times_, 1947-57; Foreign Editor, _Financial Times_, 1950-57; Economic Editor, _The Observer_, 1958-61; Director of Studies, 1961-68, Research Fellow, 1969-71, and Director, 1972-77, Royal Institute of International Affairs; Chairman, Social Science Research Council, 1969-71; Member, Royal Commission on Trade Unions, 1965-68; Member, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Review Committee on Overseas Representation, 1968-69; Reith Lecturer, 1972; Fellow, Imperial College of Science and Technology, 1970; Knight 1978; Professor of Economics, European University Institute, Florence, 1978-1981; died 1981.Publications:_International economic relations: the western system in the 1960s and 1970s_ (Sage Publications, London, 1976); _European integration in the second phase: the scope and limitiations of alliance points_ (University of Essex, 1977); ed Zuzanna Shonfield _The use of public power_ (Oxford University Press, 1982); ed Zuzanna Shonfield _In defence of the mixed economy_ (Oxford University Press, London, 1984); editor of _Social indicators and social policy_ (Heinemann Educational Books, London, 1972); _North American and Western European economic policies _(Macmillan, London, 1971); _The attack on world poverty_ (Chatto and Windus, London, 1960); _British economic policy since the War_ (Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1958); _Europe: journey to an unknown destination_ (Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1973); _A man beside himself _(Andre Deutsch, London, 1964); _Modern capitalism: the changing balance of public and private power _(Oxford University Press, London, 1969).
- Access points: persons/families:
- Shonfield, Andrew Akiba
- Access, restrictions:
- Closed until listed.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue see https://archives.lse.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=SHONFIELD
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Sources: Who's Who 1897-1996 (A & C Black, 1996); British Library On-Line Public Access Catalogue 97; Historical Manuscripts Commission National Register of Archives. Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
- British Library of Political and Economic Science
