Peter John Otter Self (7 June 1919 – 29 March 1999) was an English journalist, academic, planning policy-maker and university teacher of planning. Self was born in Brighton, to Audrey (Otter) and Henry Self, a civil servant. Self was educated at

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and

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, where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. In the

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, he was a

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, working on a farm. In his academic career, he became Professor of Public Administration at the

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, where he was a prominent member and leader of its Greater London Group research centre. He was also a prominent member of the

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. He then became Professor of Urban Research at the

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. He died in Canberra on 29 March 1999. He was the father of

Jonathan Self Jonathan Otter Self (born 11 March 1959 in Hammersmith, London) is an English author and journalist. Early life Self was raised in Hampstead, London. His father was the British journalist and academic Peter Self. His mother, Elaine (born Rosenb ...

and

Will Self William Woodard Self (born 26 September 1961) is an English author, journalist, political commentator and broadcaster. He has written 11 novels, five collections of shorter fiction, three novellas and nine collections of non-fiction writing. Sel ...

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

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1919 births 1999 deaths Australian National University faculty English male journalists Academics of the London School of Economics People educated at Lancing College Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford British conscientious objectors English male non-fiction writers

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