SZ/PEP - PEP (Political and Economic Planning)

SZ/PEP

Series

PEP (Political and Economic Planning)

1939-1985

2 boxes

SZ's connection with PEP (later the Policy Studies Institute) began in 1941, with a subscription to the organisation's journal, 'Planning'. By 1944 he had become a member of PEP itself. By 1946 he had persuaded his American friend, John Rogers, to join, and handled Rogers' subscription arrangements. In January 1949 he addressed a PEP Speaker Luncheon. From time to time his views were canvassed on PEP reports, for instance that on the universities in 1951 (the section on research), on "The World's Food" in 1952, on agriculture and land use (1957), on the Common Market (1958), and on the PEP Scientific and Engineering Survey (1959). A copy of this report, 'Scientific and Engineering Manpower Survey', by Richard Fort MP, 'Planning', vol. XXV, no. 430, 19.1.59, is in File SZ/PEP/1.

Correspondence and miscellaneous documents from the years 1939-40 relate to the role of science and scientists in war and in post-war reconstruction and are complementary to material in Series SZ/TQ.

Correspondence from 1978 onward refers to the Policy Studies Institute's lunchtime seminars.