Education
Saint Paul"s School.
Saint Paul"s School.
Shonfield"s argument that planning allows public authority to control and direct private enterprise without taking ownership of it as the socialists proposed have made him one of the better-known advocates of a mixed economy. Shonfield also worked as a journalist. He was the foreign editor of The Financial Times from 1950 until 1958, then worked as The Observer"s economic editors
He was close to the Labour Party and served first as Director of Studies (1961-1968) and then as Director (1972-1977) of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, usually known as Chatham House.
He headed the Social Science Rsearch Council (now Economic and Social Research Council) between 1969 and 1971. In 1972, he lectured on the consequences of Britain"s entry in the European Community in the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Reith Lectures.
During the final three years of his life he was Professor of Economics at the European University Institute in Florence. He was knighted in 1978.
He was a member of the Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers" Associations (the Donovan Commission) which reported in 1968.