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N O T E S
Koai, Helen Margetts, Andrew Massey, Rosa Mule, Mark Patterson,
John Peterson, Yvonne Rydin, Richard Sandlant, James Stanyer,
Helen Thompson, Carol Vielba, John Xavier, Andrew Webster,
Daniel Wincott and Spencer Zifcak. I am grateful also to Kiyoko
Iwasaki, Gita Subrahmanyam and Pieter Vanhuysse, whose doctor-
ates were still ongoing at the time of writing. I learnt a lot also from:
Davina Cooper, Penny Law, Abigail Melville and Anne Meyel.
Amongst LSE people who were not my supervisees, I benefited from
conversations with Richard Heffernan, Andrew Hindmoor, Rolf
Hoijer and Oliver James.
7. I thank especially: Martin Bulmer (now at the University of
Southampton), Keith Dowding, George Gaskell, Michael Hebbert
(now at the University of Manchester), George Jones, Paul Kelly,
Peter Loizos, Helen Margetts (now at the School of Public Policy,
University College, London), Brendan O’Leary (now at the
University of Pennsylvania), Anne Power, James Putzel and Yvonne
Rydin. I am especially indebted to Liz Barnett and her supportive
staff in the LSE’s Teaching and Learning Development Office for
their extended help and assistance. I thank also Andy Northedge
(Open University).
8. Plato quoted in Ernest Dimnet,
Art of Thinking
(London: Cape,
1929), p. 95.
Chapter 1
Becoming an author
1. Alain de Botton,
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