biography
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Parkinson, C(yril) Northcote
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| lived:
| (1909–93)
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| biography:
| Political scientist, born in Barnard Castle, Durham, NE England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, and at Kings College, London, then became professor of history at the University of Malaya (1950–8), and a visiting professor at Harvard and Illinois. He wrote many works on historical, political, and economic subjects, but achieved wider renown by his serio-comic tilt at bureaucratic malpractices in Parkinson's Law: the Pursuit of Progress (1957). ‘Parkinson's law’ - that work expands to fill the time available for its completion, and subordinates multiply at a fixed rate, regardless of the amount of work produced - has passed into the language. |
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