London School of Economics
Founded 1895. Fabian-founded social science specialist, many Nobel economists and world leaders.
Overview
Sidney and Beatrice Webb, George Bernard Shaw, and Fabian colleagues founded LSE to study the conditions of the people. It became the world's leading social science specialist, with economics, politics, law, and sociology departments of global reach. More than a dozen Nobel economists studied or taught here, Hayek and Coase among them, and dozens of heads of state passed through, from Kennedy-era leaders to Indira Gandhi. The Beveridge Report of 1942, drafted here, founded the British welfare state. About 12,000 students pack central London buildings off Aldwych. The British Library of Political and Economic Science anchors research.
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