Dear Per,

To help triangulate your subject, you might look for letters exchanged in later years between Lerner and Coase.  

When Ronald Coase visited Roosevelt University-Chicago in 2005 he told me that he had not been inside our building
since the 1950s when he "visited often to discuss all sorts of things with my friend Abba Lerner", who taught 
at Roosevelt for 12 years (from 1947 to 1958).  

It's worth noting that in the 1940s and 50s Roosevelt University welcomed socialists and Austrians:  

http://www.roosevelt.edu/CAS/Programs/ECON/History.aspx

Regards,

Steve Ziliak
Trustee and Professor of Economics
Roosevelt University


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Subject: [SHOE] LSE and the Socialist Calculation Debate

Dear all,

I am looking into the socialist calculation debate and especially as it affected scholarship at LSE during the 1920s and 1930s. I'm interested in both the "endogenous" schooling and development of the "market socialism" (and related) idea, as e.g. Abba Lerner was a student there, and the "exogenous" influence exercised on LSE faculty and students (especially of later renown, such as Lerner, Ronald Coase, and others). I have much of the obvious literature, but would appreciate your thoughts on what literature and writers/scholars would be relevant to further disentangle personal and ideological relationships at LSE and the process of influence of the socialist idea.

Thanks!


Per

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Per L. Bylund
PhD Candidate, Applied Economics
Division of Applied Social Sciences
University of Missouri

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