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Letwin in 1977. William Letwin (14 December 1922 – 20 February 2013) was an American academic who ended his career as Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics. Letwin was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Bessie (Rosenthal) and Lazar Letwin.
Economic historian William Letwin passed away, aged 90, a few days ago. Professor Letwin belonged to a prominent family: his wife, Shirley Robin Letwin, was a philosopher and social critic, author of, among other things, The Pursuit of Certainty and of the very perceptive The Anatomy of Thatcherism.
This book illustrates how the first social science, that of economics, was built. It examines and discusses the work of Josiah Child, Nicholas Barbon, John Collins, William Petty, John Locke and Dudley North and the economic theories of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
- William Letwin
- London
- 1963
4 mar 2013 · Professor William Letwin, who has died aged 90, belonged to a distinguished group of teachers of Government at the London School of Economics from the 1960s onwards, in the period when the great ...
By WILLIAM LETWIN. Sir Dudley North's Discourses on Trade, published in I69I, have been lauded as the first great exposition of free-trade doctrines. Economists have extolled Sir Dudley for his profound understanding and precise logic, and have acclaimed him a great, if not the greatest, predecessor of Adam Smith.
William Letwin’s thorough, carefully argued, and elegantly written work is the only book length study of the Sherman Antitrust Act, a law designed to shape the economic life of a large complex society through maintaining the “correct” level of competition in the economy.
Overview. Editors: William Letwin (Professor of Political Science) 533 Accesses. 38 Citations. 9 Altmetric. Search within this book. Table of contents (17 chapters) Front Matter. Pages i-ix. Download chapter PDF. The case against equality. William Letwin. Pages 1-70. Download chapter PDF. Egalitarianism, its theoretical weaknesses. Front Matter.
