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The Theory of Committees and Elections by Duncan Black and Committee Decisions with Complementary Valuation by Duncan Black and R.A. Newing (Hardcover, 2nd rev. ed. 1998)
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The Theory of Committees and Elections by Duncan Black and Committee Decisions with Complementary Valuation by Duncan Black and R.A. Newing (Hardcover, 2nd rev. ed. 1998)
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R. H. Coase Duncan Black was a close and dear friend. A man of
great simplicity, un worldly, modest, diffident, with no
pretensions, he was devoted to scholarship. In his single-minded
search for the truth, he is an example to us all. Black's first
degree at the University of Glasgow was in mathematics and physics.
Mathematics as taught at Glasgow seems to have been designed for
engineers and did not excite him and he switched to economics,
which he found more congenial. But it was not in a lecture in
economics but in one on politics that he found his star. One
lecturer, A. K. White, discussed the possibility of constructing a
pure science of politics. This question caught his imagination,
perhaps because of his earlier training in physics, and it came to
absorb his thoughts for the rest of his life. But almost certainly
nothing would have come of it were it not for his appointment to
the newly formed Dundee School of Economics where the rest of the.
teaching staff came from the London School of Economics. At
Glasgow, economics, as in the time of Adam Smith, was linked with
moral philosophy. At Dundee, Black was introduced to the analytical
x The Theory o/Committees and Elections approach dominant at the
London School of Economics. This gave him the approach he used in
his attempt to construct a pure science of politics."
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