Alec Nove
Template:TOCnestleft Alec Nove (Alexander Novakovsky) , economist: born St Petersburg 24 November 1915; Reader in Russian Social and Economic Studies, London University 1958-63; Professor of Economics, Glasgow University 1963-82 (Emeritus), Honorary Senior Research Fellow 1982-94; FBA 1978; FRSE 1982; married 1951 Irene MacPherson (three sons); died Voss, Norway 15 May 1994.
Nove's life spanned the development, the distortion and the final collapse of what might have been a lasting achievement but which, despite periods of greatness in the Second World War and the exploration of outer space, became a testimony to selfish ambitions and misdirected efforts. In starting to write about the Soviet Union in the late 1950s, Nove had the advantage of fluency in the Russian of his family and the English of his education, a thorough grounding in economics at the London School of Economics, first-hand knowledge of life in the raw from service in the army during the Second World War, and an intimate understanding of bureaucracy from employment at the Board of Trade from 1947 to 1958. After five years as a Reader at LSE he was elevated in 1963 to a Chair of Economics at Glasgow University, where he also became Director of the newly formed Institute of Soviet and East European Studies.[1]
DSA pamphlets
In 1990, Democratic Socialists of America was selling a list of pamphlets, mainly by members, including "The Question of Socialism", by Michael Harrington and Alec Nove.[2]
References
- ↑ [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-professor-alec-nove-1437252.html The Independent, Obituary: Professor Alec Nove BILL WALLACE Friday 20 May 1994]
- ↑ Democratic Left, Jan./Feb. 1990, page 14