1916 - 2005

Nationality:
English

Historical Period:
The 20th Century and Beyond

Groups

• Public Choice

For over thirty years from the late 1950s Arthur Seldon (1916-2005) was the Editorial Director of the London-based Institute for Economic Affairs, where his publishing program was one of the principal influences on governments all around the world, persuading them to liberalize their economies.

See the Liberty Matters online discussion of Arthur Seldon and the Institute of Economic Affairs.

Titles:

• Author: The Collected Works of Arthur Seldon
• Author: The Collected Works of Arthur Seldon, vol. 1 - The Virtues of Capitalism
• Author: The Collected Works of Arthur Seldon, vol. 4
• Author: The Collected Works of Arthur Seldon, vol. 5 - Government Failure and Over-Government
• Author: The Collected Works of Arthur Seldon, vol. 6
• Author: The Collected Works of Arthur Seldon, vol. 7 - The IEA, the LSE, and the Influence of Ideas
• Author: The Intellectual Portrait Series: Lord Ralph Harris and Arthur Seldon

Quotations:

• Arthur Seldon on the problem of "who guards us from the guardians"? (1990)

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