Graham Wallas

Graham Wallas (1858-1932), professor and theorist in political science and international relations.

It was formed with Shewsbury , then with Corpus Christi College (Oxford)

He was member of the executive the Fabian Society of 1888 to 1895. He will leave, in 1904, this company where he entered in 1886 for at least three reasons:

It had a deep empathy with the liberal principles
It was in favor of the free trade and against the English imperialism
It believed more in psychology than in the institutions

He taught with University Extension and the London School off Economics of which he is one of the founding members with George Bernard Shaw like Beatrice Webb and Sidney Webb.

He had elective functions of 1897 to 1904 with the London School Board where he was president of the School Management Committee . This experiment marked its theoretical work much. With Abbot Lawrence Lowell of Harvard as leader, it belongs to those which wanted that the economic scene left the libraries and deals more of the facts and realities. In this logic, he was member, of 1912 to 1915, the Royal Commission one the Civil Service .

Except near some of these students of London School off Economics and a circle of friends, his influence in the United Kingdom was weak. It was much stronger in the United States where it carried out many conferences: 1896-1897, 1910 (Harvard) where it became acquainted with that which was to become one of its principal disciples Walter Lippmann, 1914 (Lowell Lecturer in Boston), 1919 (Yale), 1928 (Williamstown).

In France, although he was a friend close to Elie Halévy his influence was null and none of its works was seems it translates to date.

Works

1889, Property under Socialism in Fabian Essays
1897, Life off Francis Places
1908, Human Nature in Politics
1914, The Great Society
1921, Our Social Heritage
1926, The art off Thought
1934, Social Judgment
1940, Men and Ideas , collection of articles with a foreword of Gilbert Murray

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