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
  • , 1924
  • Theory and practice of modern government, 2 Vols., 1932
  • Representative government and a parliament, 1933
  • English local government, 1933
  • Mussolini's Italy, 1935
  • British civil service, 1937
  • The 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 - 338
  • Municipal trading, 1941
  • International T.V.A., 1944
  • Future of government, 1946
  • America's destiny, 1947
  • The Theory and Practice of Modern Government, 1961, Methuen & Co. Ltd. London.
  • "Dulles over SUEZ", 1964, Quadrangle Books, Chicago