biography
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Cole, George Douglas Howard
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| lived:
| (1889–1958)
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| biography:
| Economist, historian, and detective-story writer, born in London, UK. He studied at Oxford, where he became reader in economics (1925) and professor of social and political theory (1944). Historian, chairman (1939–46, 1948–50), and president from 1952 of the Fabian Society, he wrote numerous books on socialism. He often wrote in collaboration with his wife, Margaret Isobel Cole, and her brother, Raymond Postgate. |
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