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ANNOUNCEMENT is made of the formation of a new Institute of Economic and Social Research. Sir Josiah Stamp is to be the first president of the Institute, and Prof. N. F. Hall, professor of political economy in the University of London (University College), is to be director. Among the functions of the Institute are the carrying out of research, either by its own staff or by others temporarily associated with it, into the facts and problems of contemporary human society, and the publication of the results of researches, subject to adequate safeguards for the impartial and scientific character of these publications. Financial support for the Institute is being provided by the Sir Halley Stewart Trust, the trustees of the late Lord Leverhulme, the Pilgrim Trust and the Rockefeller Foundation. An annual income has been guaranteed of £10,000 for five years, and £5,000 for two years after. The offices of the Institute will be at 32 Gordon Square, London, W.C.I.
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Institute of Economic and Social Research. Nature 141, 69 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141069b0
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