Educational background: - ANS Lionel Robbins his economic tutor for PPE Oxford 1929, scholarship to
study under-consumptionist theories at UCL 1929, 1930= appointed to a lectureship in economics at LSE
Political background: - ANS nonconformist, active in Union and Oxford Uni Labour Club
1930s Wo...
The Politics of Democratic socialism-
Durbin
Educational background: - ANS Lionel Robbins his economic tutor for PPE Oxford 1929, scholarship to
study under-consumptionist theories at UCL 1929, 1930= appointed to a lectureship in economics at LSE
Political background: - ANS nonconformist, active in Union and Oxford Uni Labour Club
1930s Works= - ANS Purchasing Power and the Trade Depression, The Problem of Credit policy
Not in its abstract form that economics caught his imagination but in: - ANS the role economists could
play in developing a democratic socialist society
Which left-wing intellectual groups was he part of, who were committed to finding new directions for
socialism and economic policy? - ANS New Fabian Research Bureau and the XYZ Club
WHat was he convinced of by 1930s? - ANS That economic planning was the most effective means to
achieve socialist ends
believed a fullu planned economy was a precondition of - ANS socialism
Example of how he was unafriad to tow an unpopular line: - ANS He emphsised the affinities between
soviet communism and European facism- insisting that both Germany and Russia were dictatorships
characterised by similar cruelties and injustices= at a time when soviet-style communism recieved much
support from leading British socialists such as Harold Laski
He insisted that communism was incompatible with: - ANS the commitment to democracy, social justice
and personal freedom which lay at the heart of British socialism
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