Edwin George West

Background

West, Edwin George was born in 1922 in Yorkshire, England.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Doctor of Philosophy University London, 1948, 1964.

Career

Lector, Guildford College Technology, England, 1951-1956. Senior Lecturer, Oxford College Technology, 1956-1962. Lector, University Newcastle-uponTyne, 1962-1965.

Post-doctoral Fellow, University Chicago, 1965-1966.

Reader, University Kent, 1966-1970. Visiting Research Scholar, University California Berkeley, 1974, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Institution, 1975-1977.

Visiting Professor, Emory University, Georgia, United States of America, 1983-1984. Professor of Economics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, since 1970.

Editorial Boards, Institute of Economic Affairs, United Kingdom, 1981, Economics Education Review, 1980-1983, Reason Papers, since 1975, Policy Report (CATO Institute, Institution, since 1978), Carleton Economics Papers, since 1980.

Achievements

• Adjunct Scholar, Heritage Foundation, Washington. Member, Mont Pelerin Society. Board Advisers, Pacific Institute, Institution Public Policy Research, San Francisco, since 1981.

Works

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  • Brothers: What the Van Goghs, Booths, Marxes, Kelloggs--and Colts--Tell Us About How Siblings Shape Our Lives and History

    (EDWIN BOOTH GREW UP TO BECOME THE GREATEST ACTOR ON THE n...)

  • The Wealth of Nations: Adam Smith Introduction by Robert Reich Edited, With Notes, Marginal Summa

    (Presents the classic eighteenth-century treatise on polit...)

  • Review Of The Work Of Mr John Stuart Mill Entitled Examination Of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy

    (This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of th...)

  • Adam Smith into the Twenty-First Century (Shaftesbury Papers, Vol 7)

    (An introduction to the economist Adam Smith. This volume ...)

  • Adam Smith. [The Man and His Work]. Liberty Fund. 1976.
  • The Legacy of Israel Essays By Sir George Adam Smith, E. Bevan, F. C. Burkitt, R. T. Herford, A G Charles, D. Singer, C Box W B. Selbie N. Isaacs L Roth A Meillet Laurie Magnus, C. G. Montifiore
  • From Marx to Mao Tse-Tung: A Study in Revolutionary Dialectics

Views

I began writing from the discipline of public finance and especially from the government expenditure side. My first application, in Education and the State (1965), was an investigation into the rationale of government-provided schooling in Britain. This led me to a similar investigation into the public finance of American education in the later 1960s and in the 1970s into the history of intervention in British education from 1760.

Simultaneously I have worked in the history of economic thought with predominant attention to Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx. I have frequently researched on government intervention in labour matters. My interest in public choice is reflected in recent work on minimum wages as well as current writing on the choice between alternative methods of financing education (voucher, loans and full-cost fees). In welfare economic theory, my chief interest has been in the economics of second best and the concept of merit goods.

Consistent also with my welfare economics and public finance background, I am currently studying public subsidies to the performing arts in Canada. My latest work in education is engaging me in the law and economics of the subject in the United States and especially with respect to the most recent Supreme Court decisions on aid to private schools.

Interests

• 031 History of Economic Thought. 322 National Government Expenditures and Budgeting. 822 Public Policy; Role of Government.