George Henry Soule Jr.
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Biography
George Henry Soule Jr. (1887 – April 14, 1970) was a labor economist, author, and a long time editor and contributor to The New Republic.
Biography
George Soule was born in Stamford, Connecticut in 1887 and was graduated from Yale University in 1908. He was a member of the editorial staff of The New Republic from 1914 to 1918 and during 1919 editorial writer for the New York Evening Post. He drafted a report on the labour policy of the Industrial Service Sections Ordnance Department and Air Service for the War Department and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps. He was a director of the Labour Bureau, Inc., which engages in economic research for labour organizations.
In 1940 he was married to Helen Flanders Dunbar. A daughter, Marcia was born in 1942.
He wrote the 1946 review of Animal Farm in The New Republic.
Works
- The New Unionism in the Clothing Industry, 1920
- The Intellectual and the Labor Movement, 1923
- The Coming American Revolution, 1934
- The Future of Liberty, 1936
- Ideas of the Great Economists, 1952
- Ideas of the Great Economist, 1958
- The New Science of Economics, 1964
- Planning U.S.A., 1967