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THE annual report for 1942 of the National Institute of Social and Economic Research refers to the removal of the Institute to 2 Dean Trench Street, Westminster, where the new premises have permitted a thorough re-organization of the library. This has been re-classified and re-catalogued, and an accessions programme worked out to fill up the more serious gaps in books, periodicals and official publications. The Institute is prepared to make it available for reference to research workers in Government service who may wish to supplement the resources of their departmental libraries. Research work during the year was almost entirely a continuation or extension of programmes either under way or planned, but the first issue of the Register of Research in the Social Sciences, the new version of the summary of research in progress and in plan, was completed in December and has been circulated confidentially. The Saving and Spending Survey begun in 1940 was concluded in October, and the inquiry into National Health Insurance undertaken by Prof. H. Levy was sent to the press early this year. Dr. Baykov's study on the development of the Soviet economic system, which has taken the form of a thoroughly documented essay on the experience of planning in the U.S.S.R., was concluded by the end of the year. Dr. Singer completed in November a short descriptive study of standardized accountancy in Germany and Prof. Findlay Shirras brought to a close in the autumn the “Federal Finance Enquiry”. Mr. A. Shenfield completed a report on “The Impact of War on Coventry: a Study in Industrial Dislocation”, covering the war period up to the end of 1941.
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National Institute of Social and Economic Research. Nature 152, 185–186 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152185d0
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