Peter Self
English academic
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- PhD Computer Science University of Oxford
- Bachelors Mathematics University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Peter John Otter Self was an English journalist, academic, planning policy-maker and university teacher of planning. Self was born in Brighton, to Audrey and Henry Self, a civil servant. Self was educated at Lancing College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. In the Second World War, he was a conscientious objector, working on a farm. In his academic career, he became Professor of Public Administration at the London School of Economics, where he was a prominent member and leader of its Greater London Group research centre. He was also a prominent member of the Town and Country Planning Association. He then became Professor of Urban Research at the Australian National University. He died in Canberra on 29 March 1999.
Peter Self's Published Works
Published Works
- Government by the Market?: The Politics of Public Choice (1993) (302)
- Housing in the modern world (1964) (88)
- Government by the market (1993) (75)
- The State and the Farmer (71)
- Econocrats and the policy process: The politics and philosophy of cost-benefit analysis (1975) (69)
- Econocrats and the policy process (1975) (54)
- “NONSENSE ON STILTS”: COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS AND THE ROSKILL COMMISSION (1970) (43)
- Administrative theories and politics: An inquiry into the structure and processes of modern government (1972) (41)
- Political Theories of Modern Government : Its Role and Reform (1985) (35)
- Metropolitan planning: an international perspective (1988) (19)
- Metropolitan planning: economic rationalism and social objectives (1990) (18)
- Is Comprehensive Planning Possible and Rational (1974) (18)
- THE CONSEQUENCES OF REORGANISING GOVERNMENT ON MARKET LINES (1995) (16)
- Rolling back the market (1999) (16)
- WHAT'S WRONG WITH GOVERNMENT?. THE PROBLEM OF PUBLIC CHOICE (1990) (16)
- Cities in flood : the problems of urban growth (1958) (16)
- Australian Cities: Alternative Urban Policies: The Case for Regional Development (1995) (13)
- THE EDUCATION OF ADMINISTRATORS (1967) (11)
- Cities in Flood. (1958) (9)
- Regional Planning in Britain (1964) (9)
- The planning of industrial location (1953) (8)
- Regional Planning in Britain: Analysis and Evaluation (1967) (8)
- What's Happened to Administrative Theories? (1997) (8)
- The Australian Urban and Regional Development Review: what can it achieve? (1995) (7)
- Redefining the role of government (1987) (7)
- The evolution of the Greater London Plan, 1944–1970 (2002) (6)
- Regional Development Incentives (1974) (5)
- Town planning in Greater London (1962) (5)
- What's gone wrong with public administration? (1986) (5)
- THE FARMERS AND THE STATE (1958) (4)
- Elected Representatives and Management in Local Government: An Alternative Analysis (1971) (4)
- The resurgence of metropolitan planning in Australia (1988) (4)
- The State and the Farmer: British Agricultural Policies and Politics (1964) (4)
- RESCUING LOCAL GOVERNMENT (1982) (3)
- Elusive Quest for Efficiency (1983) (3)
- INTERNATIONAL LESSONS FOR AN AUSTRALIAN NEW CITY (1989) (3)
- THE CHALLENGE OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT (1990) (3)
- REFORM OF THE CIVIL SERVICE (1967) (3)
- The Herbert Report and the Values of Local Government (1962) (2)
- Great Cities, Great Problems, Great Possibilities?@@@Great Cities of the World; Their Government, Politics and Planning@@@Governmental Problems in the Chicago Metropolitan Area@@@Cities in Flood; The Problems of Urban Growth@@@Urban Land Use Planning@@@Metropolitan Communities: A Bibliography (1958) (2)
- Economic Ideas and Government Operations (1975) (2)
- A POLICY FOR AGRICULTURE (1948) (2)
- Economics and Democracy (1975) (2)
- ADMINISTRATIVE OVERLOAD AND THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT (1984) (2)
- Town Planning in the United States and Britain (I) (1954) (1)
- Land-Use Controls in the United States@@@The Emerging City@@@Urban Research Methods (1963) (1)
- Metropolitan planning: the planning system of Greater London (1971) (1)
- The Wythall inquiry : a planning test-case (1963) (1)
- ‘Econocracy’ and the Policy Process (1975) (1)
- Techniques and Values in Policy Decisions (1974) (1)
- Mark Blaug, The Methodology of Economics: Or How Economists Explain , Cambridge University Press, 1980, 296 pp., £15.00. (1982) (1)
- Federalism and Australian Local Government: Reflections upon the National Inquiry into Local Government Finance (1987) (1)
- Phyllis Colvin, The Economic Ideal in British Government Manchester University Press , 1985, 232 pp., £22.50. (1986) (0)
- TOWN PLANNING IN RETREAT (1956) (0)
- Elliot J. Feldman, Concorde and Dissent . Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1985, 201 pp., £19.50 (1986) (0)
- The Dilemmas of Welfare Economics (1975) (0)
- The Quest for Quantification (1975) (0)
- Market ideology and good government. by Peter Self (1990) (0)
- Planning and Cost-Benefit (1975) (0)
- Wise after the Event? Lessons of the Airport Saga (1974) (0)
- WEALTH, WORK AND WELFARE (1980) (0)
- Haldane Essay Competition 1966: Report of Adjudicators (1967) (0)
- NEW PROSPECTS FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT (1957) (0)
- Economics, Government and Society (1975) (0)
- Techniques and Values (1975) (0)
- Regional Planning and the Machinery of Government (1964) (0)
- [Cost benefit analysis and equity criteria]. [Spanish] (1986) (0)
- The Puzzles of ‘Externalities’ (1975) (0)
- II. Public Corporations (1976) (0)
- THE CONSEQUENCES FOR FARMING AND FOOD (1963) (0)
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