Herman Finer


Herman Finer was a Jewish Romanian-born British political scientist and Fabian socialist.
Finer was born in Hertsa, Romania, to Max Finer and Fanny Weiner. He taught for many years at the University of Chicago. He was the eldest brother of Samuel Finer and the uncle of Pogues instrumentalist and composer Jem Finer.
He died from a heart attack in Chicago.

Literary works

Foreign governments at work, 1921, 1924Theory and practice of modern government, 2 Vols., 1932Representative government and a parliament, 1933English local government, 1933 Mussolini's Italy, 1935British civil service, 1937The Delimination of the Part played by and an Analysis of the Effects of the Sense of Responsibility in Social Life and in particular in the Economic Order. in: Le sens de la responsabilite dans la vie sociale. Other authors Hanna Meuter, Cologne & John Atkinson Hobson. Institut de sociologie Solvay, Parc Léopold. - Brussels, Series: Enquêtes Sociologiques, Vol. 2. Université libre de Bruxelles. -Finer: p. 151 - 250, ib. in French p. 251 - 338Municipal trading, 1941International T.V.A., 1944Future of government, 1946America's destiny, 1947The Theory and Practice of Modern Government, 1961, Methuen & Co. Ltd. London.