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