Edith Penrose, world-leading economist who drove the study of social sciences at SOAS

”I don’t take sides. I just gather the facts and if people don’t like my work, they just don’t like the facts” Dr Edith Penrose – 1976. “Edith Penrose was a visionary whose work contributed to a new general theory of the growth of firms. The scale of her contribution can be gauged by its influence on current research in management and economics and by the fact that the practical

The SOAS language student who was a Soviet spy

By Katie Price|December 10, 2015|1960s, History, The World at SOAS|2 comments

Nearly 55 years after it happened, SOAS alumnus Brian Evans, a former Canadian diplomat and Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta, recalls the discovery that fellow language student Gordon Lonsdale was actually Soviet intelligence officer Konon Molody. I entered SOAS in early October 1954, a raw young man from the Canadian Prairies. New to London, it took me several tours of Russell Square that foggy morning before a break

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Edith Penrose, world-leading economist who drove the study of social sciences at SOAS

The SOAS language student who was a Soviet spy