Peter Self

Peter John Otter Self (7 June 1919 – 29 March 1999) was an English journalist, academic, planning policy-maker and university teacher of planning.[1]

Peter Self, c. 1960

Self was born in Brighton, to Audrey (Otter) and Henry Self, a civil servant. Self was educated at Lancing College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. In the Second World War, he was a conscientious objector, working on a farm. In his academic career, he became Professor of Public Administration at the London School of Economics, where he was a prominent member and leader of its Greater London Group research centre.[2] He was also a prominent member of the Town and Country Planning Association.[1] He then became Professor of Urban Research at the Australian National University. He died in Canberra on 29 March 1999.

He was the father of Jonathan Self and Will Self.

Bibliography
  • Regionalism, 1949
  • Whither Local Government?, 1950
  • Cities in Flood: The Problems of Urban Growth, 1960
  • The State and the Farmer, 1962 ISBN 0043380328
  • Metropolitan Planning: Planning System of Greater London, 1971 ISBN 0817300902
  • Planning the Urban Region: A Comparative Study of Policies and Organizations, 1982 ISBN 0043520995
  • New Towns: The British Experience, 1972
  • Administrative Theories and Politics: An Enquiry into the Structure and Processes of Modern Government, 1972 ISBN 0043510434
  • Econocrats and the Policy Process: Politics and Philosophy of Cost-benefit Analysis, 1976 ISBN 0333180968
  • Administrative Theories and Politics: An Enquiry into the Structure and Processes of Modern Government, 1977 ISBN 0043510531
  • Political Theories of Modern Government - Its role and reform, Unwin Hyman, London, 1985 ISBN 0-04-320174-1
  • Government by the Market? The Politics of Public Choice, 1993 ISBN 0333569725
  • Rolling Back the Market, 1999 ISBN 0312226519

References
  1. "Obituary: Professor Peter Self". 14 April 1999.
  2. Jones, George (2008). "The Greater London Group after 50 years". In Kochan, Ben (ed.). London government 50 years of debate: The contribution of LSE's Greater London Group (PDF). London School of Economics. pp. 15–22.

Further reading
  • SELF, Prof. Peter John Otter’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 3 Sept 2014
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