SCHWARTZ GEORGE LEOPOLD 1891 - 1983 FINANCIAL JOURNALIST

The Swaffham Area, typescript report on agriculture in Swaffham, Norfolk,by Schwartz, September 1924, with related notes and papers, including:

• Swaffham Union annual abstracts of accounts, 1910, 1912 - 1915, 1923
• The Swaffham Almanack, 1924
• Ordnance Survey contoured road map of Swaffham and East Dereham, 1921

Liberal Party publications, undated:

• To all who live on the land
• To practical men in mining
• To all who live in towns and cities
• Research in animal breeding: an application of the Joint Committee of Edinburgh University and the College of Agriculture for a grant in aid of expenditure during the year ending 30 June 1923

National Union of Landworkers publications and circulars

• Rural Policy Committee: Findings undated

Land Enquiry papers, undated:

• Instructions for the Investigators
• Employment on the land
• Figures for reference

International Institute of Agriculture leaflet:

• International trade in fertilisers and chemical products useful in agriculture (1923)

George Leopold Schwartz 1891 - 1983

George Schwartz was educated at Varndean School, Brighton, and St Paul's Training College, Cheltenham. He served in army during World War I. After the war he studied at the London School of Economics 1918 - 1921. He was secretary of the London Cambridge Economics Service, 1923, and Ernest Cassel lecturer, London University, 1929. Leopold also assisted Sir Arnold Plant (1898 - 1978), with the Wartime Social Survey, 1940. He went on to become Deputy city editor of the Sunday Times and economic adviser to Kemsley newspapers, 1944 - 61. He was editor of Bankers Magazine, 1945 - 54, and contributed a column on economic affairs to Sunday Times, 1961 - 71. Schwartz was also an Honorary Fellow of the LSE.

His publications include:

• Output, employment and wages in the United Kingdom, 1924, 1930, 1933(1938)
• Planning and economic privilege: the notion of equity in economics"(1944)
• Why planning? (1944)
• Bread and circuses 1945 - 1958 (selection of articles that appeared in the Sunday Times, 1959)

Arranged in nine folders.

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