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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.
4 de mar. de 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...
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.
30 de sept. de 2013 · 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.
On the History of the Idea of Law is the first book ever to trace the development of the philosophical theory of law from its first appear-ance in Plato’s writings to today. Shirley Robin Letwin finds important and positive insights and tensions in the theories of Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and Hobbes. She finds confusions and serious ...
For many years, her husband William Letwin, and her son Oliver Letwin, nurtured the hope of being able to complete the manuscript. Shirley had secured a tentative offer of publication from an American university press, but it would require some important revisions.
