Peter Self Explained

Peter John Otter Self (7 June 1919 – 29 March 1999) was an English journalist, academic, planning policy-maker and university teacher of planning.^[1]

Self was born in Brighton, to Audrey (Otter) and Henry Self, a civil servant. Self was educated at Lancing College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. In the Second World War, he was a conscientious objector, working on a farm. In his academic career, he became Professor of Public Administration at the London School of Economics, where he was a prominent member and leader of its Greater London Group research centre.^[2] He was also a prominent member of the Town and Country Planning Association.^[1] He then became Professor of Urban Research at the Australian National University. He died in Canberra on 29 March 1999.

He was the father of Jonathan Self and Will Self.

Bibliography

• Regionalism, 1949
• Whither Local Government?, 1950
• Cities in Flood: The Problems of Urban Growth, 1960
• The State and the Farmer, 1962
• Metropolitan Planning: Planning System of Greater London, 1971
• Planning the Urban Region: A Comparative Study of Policies and Organizations, 1982
• New Towns: The British Experience, 1972
• Administrative Theories and Politics: An Enquiry into the Structure and Processes of Modern Government, 1972
• Econocrats and the Policy Process: Politics and Philosophy of Cost-benefit Analysis, 1976
• Administrative Theories and Politics: An Enquiry into the Structure and Processes of Modern Government, 1977
• Political Theories of Modern Government - Its role and reform, Unwin Hyman, London, 1985
• Government by the Market? The Politics of Public Choice, 1993
• Rolling Back the Market, 1999

Further reading

• SELF, Prof. Peter John Otter’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 3 Sept 2014

External links

• Obituary ANU Reporter
• https://web.archive.org/web/20080720214406/http://www.rootsandleaves.com/family/Burke%27s/PAGET%20of%20Cranmore%20Hall.htm

Notes and References

1. Web site: Obituary: Professor Peter Self. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-professor-peter-self-1087099.html . 2022-05-26 . subscription . live. . 14 April 1999.
2. Book: Jones, George . Kochan . Ben . 2008 . London government 50 years of debate: The contribution of LSE's Greater London Group . London School of Economics . The Greater London Group after 50 years . 15–22 .