Herman Finer

Herman Finer (February 24, 1898 in Hertsa, Kingdom of Romania – March 4, 1969 in Chicago, United States) was a Romanian-born British political scientist and Fabian socialist.

His parents were Max Finer (1866/67–1945) and his wife, Fanny Weiner (1872/73–1945). They had immigrated from Romania and earned a living first as market traders and, later, as owners of a drapery shop. He taught for many years at the University of Chicago. He was the eldest brother of Samuel Finer.[1]

Literary works

• Foreign governments at work, 1921
• The case against proportional representation, 1924
• Theory and practice of modern government, 2 Vols., 1932[1]
• Representative government and a parliament, 1933
• English local government, 1933 (2nd ed. 1945, 3rd 1946)
• Mussolini's Italy, 1935
• British civil service, 1937
• The Delimination of the Part played by and an Analysis of the Effects of the Sense of Responsibility in Social Life and in particular in the Economic Order. in: Le sens de la responsabilite dans la vie sociale. Other authors Hanna Meuter, Cologne & John Atkinson Hobson. Institut de sociologie Solvay, Parc Léopold. - Brussels (1938 or 1939), Series: Enquêtes Sociologiques, Vol. 2. Université Libre de Bruxelles. -Finer: p. 151 - 250 (engl.), ib. in French p. 251 - 338
• Municipal trading, 1941
• International T.V.A., 1944
• Road to reaction. 1945
• Future of government, 1946
• America's destiny, 1947
• The Theory and Practice of Modern Government, 1961 (4th ed. of the abridged one-volume 1950 edition of the two-volume work of 1932 'thoroughly rewritten as to be a new work', Preface [vi]), Methuen & Co. Ltd. London.

References

1. Peter Pulzer, "Finer, Samuel Edward (1915–1993)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 25 September 2017