Ralf Dahrendorf
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198202400
- eISBN:
- 9780191675331
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198202400.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter focuses on the changes affecting the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) between 1937–1995. By the departure of William Beveridge in 1937, the work of creation and ...
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This chapter focuses on the changes affecting the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) between 1937–1995. By the departure of William Beveridge in 1937, the work of creation and establishment had been done. From now on, LSE would be faced with different challenges originating partly in the vagaries of the times, and partly in persistent pressures for growth. The decades following Beveridge's resignation were full of incident — the wartime evacuation of Cambridge, the two waves of post-war university expansion, and from the 1970s an environment increasingly hostile to higher education in general and the social sciences in particular. In Alexander Carr-Saunders, the School found a safe pair of hands to direct it through the transition from its heroic age to normality, and more particularly through the upheavals of the war and reconstruction. His character helped bring about the steadying influence that he exerted on the troubled institution he had inherited, and which was much needed in the turbulent times that would soon engulf it.Less
This chapter focuses on the changes affecting the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) between 1937–1995. By the departure of William Beveridge in 1937, the work of creation and establishment had been done. From now on, LSE would be faced with different challenges originating partly in the vagaries of the times, and partly in persistent pressures for growth. The decades following Beveridge's resignation were full of incident — the wartime evacuation of Cambridge, the two waves of post-war university expansion, and from the 1970s an environment increasingly hostile to higher education in general and the social sciences in particular. In Alexander Carr-Saunders, the School found a safe pair of hands to direct it through the transition from its heroic age to normality, and more particularly through the upheavals of the war and reconstruction. His character helped bring about the steadying influence that he exerted on the troubled institution he had inherited, and which was much needed in the turbulent times that would soon engulf it.
Donna T. Andrew and Randall McGowen
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520220621
- eISBN:
- 9780520923706
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520220621.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter describes the public execution of seven men hanged for property offenses. It notes that these men were Lyon Abrahams and Saunders Alexander, convicted of burglary, George Lee, a handsome ...
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This chapter describes the public execution of seven men hanged for property offenses. It notes that these men were Lyon Abrahams and Saunders Alexander, convicted of burglary, George Lee, a handsome eighteen year old condemned for highway robbery, two coiners, Richard Baker and John Radcliffe, the twin brothers, Daniel and Robert Perreau, convicted of forgery. It further notes that although the brothers had been convicted of forgery, they continued to protest that they were the victims of a beautiful, intelligent, and dangerous courtesan, Mrs. Margaret Caroline Rudd. It relates that when the crime was first detected in March, the brothers insisted on their innocence and alleged that Mrs.Rudd, Daniel's mistress, had entrapped them.Less
This chapter describes the public execution of seven men hanged for property offenses. It notes that these men were Lyon Abrahams and Saunders Alexander, convicted of burglary, George Lee, a handsome eighteen year old condemned for highway robbery, two coiners, Richard Baker and John Radcliffe, the twin brothers, Daniel and Robert Perreau, convicted of forgery. It further notes that although the brothers had been convicted of forgery, they continued to protest that they were the victims of a beautiful, intelligent, and dangerous courtesan, Mrs. Margaret Caroline Rudd. It relates that when the crime was first detected in March, the brothers insisted on their innocence and alleged that Mrs.Rudd, Daniel's mistress, had entrapped them.
Naomi Beck
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780226556000
- eISBN:
- 9780226556147
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226556147.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
The third chapter offers a detailed exposition and evaluation of Hayek’s theory of cultural evolution. Hayek postulated that the shift from small-group existence to life in an extended social order ...
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The third chapter offers a detailed exposition and evaluation of Hayek’s theory of cultural evolution. Hayek postulated that the shift from small-group existence to life in an extended social order entailed a moral revolution. Specifically, the naturally evolved drives of solidarity and altruism had to be repressed for the sake of a new morality comprising the rules of the market, such as profit making and free competition, which are better suited to growth and to the coordination of the actions of many individuals with different goals and aims. Hayek explained this shift by reference to the notion of group selection, found in the works of Alexander M. Carr-Saunders and Vero C. Wynne-Edwards. But his interpretation of group selection was diametrically opposed to theirs. Instead of favoring limited reproduction, Hayek argued that the goal and driver of cultural group selection is demographic growth. The instrumental use of evolutionary concepts without much consideration for their provenance and original meaning was also apparent in Hayek’s disregard for Darwin’s views on cultural evolution. The chapter includes comparisons of Hayek’s theory with Darwin’s views and with later developments, which reveal the uneasy logical contortions his analysis underwent in order to arrive at preferred conclusions.Less
The third chapter offers a detailed exposition and evaluation of Hayek’s theory of cultural evolution. Hayek postulated that the shift from small-group existence to life in an extended social order entailed a moral revolution. Specifically, the naturally evolved drives of solidarity and altruism had to be repressed for the sake of a new morality comprising the rules of the market, such as profit making and free competition, which are better suited to growth and to the coordination of the actions of many individuals with different goals and aims. Hayek explained this shift by reference to the notion of group selection, found in the works of Alexander M. Carr-Saunders and Vero C. Wynne-Edwards. But his interpretation of group selection was diametrically opposed to theirs. Instead of favoring limited reproduction, Hayek argued that the goal and driver of cultural group selection is demographic growth. The instrumental use of evolutionary concepts without much consideration for their provenance and original meaning was also apparent in Hayek’s disregard for Darwin’s views on cultural evolution. The chapter includes comparisons of Hayek’s theory with Darwin’s views and with later developments, which reveal the uneasy logical contortions his analysis underwent in order to arrive at preferred conclusions.
