Clare Market Review
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| The Clare Market Review | |
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| Abbreviated title | CMR |
| Discipline | Interdisciplinary |
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Daniel B Yates & Christine Whyte |
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| Publisher | LSE Students' Union (UK) |
| Publication history | 1905 to present |
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| OCLC | 4075139 |
Established in 1905, the Clare Market Review is the oldest student-run academic journal in the UK. It is based at the London School of Economics and published by the university's Students' Union.
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[edit] Notable Contributors
Throughout its early years Beatrice Webb and Sidney Webb, Fabian founders of the LSE and the New Statesman magazine, maintained a close writing relationship with the CMR, publishing many articles and essays including those which went on to form the backbone of their influential ten volume study English Local Government. Playwright and fellow Fabian George Bernard Shaw contributed arts reviews. Marxist historian Ralph Miliband had numerous essays published, and William Beveridge developed his notions of taxation in the journal's pages. In 1966 Bertrand Russell contributed a fierce polemic on the Vietnam war, entitled An Appeal to the American Conscience. Other contributors include the political and economic theorist Harold Laski, post-Keynsian economist Joan Violet Robinson, Prime Minister of South Africa and soldier Jan Smuts, Liberal politician and peer David Steel, the noted anthropologist Edmund Leach, the humourist Alan Coren, the comedian and writer Spike Milligan, the critic Bernard Levin, the music theorist and pop musician Brian Eno, and the Liverpudlian Beat Poets Brian Patten and Roger McGough.
[edit] The Past
From 1905 to 1973 the review prided itself on providing LSE students with an opportunity to voice their opinions free from the constraints and circumscriptions of university academia. In the summer term of 1972, editor John Stathatos summarised its objectives as follows:
'Its format and content changes to reflect the attitudes of its editors and the vicissitudes of the students’ union which publishes it... Clare Market’s strength has derived from its lack of insularity and determined freedom of control from both its publishers and the school which stands behind it.' [1]
However financial difficulty and general decline in interest led to a hiatus in 1973 which was to last some thirty years (until 2008). In Michaelmas term of 1973 the then editor captured the mood of imminent demise:
'Clare Market Review disappeared into the darkness of the Students’ Union for one session; and its only now struggling with the pangs of rebirth. Like any student publication it is hopelessly understaffed - this is a plea for its existence.' [2]
Throughout its existence the CMR has varied enormously in content and tone; sometimes covering very wide spectrum of subject matter; from literary reviews to analysis of the world’s financial markets; and at other times focussing solely on poetry and the arts. Alongside variations in the subject matter, it would appear that the early days of the publication also saw variations in legibility - a 1907 edition of The Economic Journal was pithy in its appraisal:
'It is not easy to find room for improvement in the Clare Market Review, and all may not concur in our wish that the chronicle and reviews were as legible as they are readable, that the character of multum in parvo, which distinguishes the style, had not been made so literally true by the use of type which requires the "microscopic eye" denied to man.' [3]
The Clare Market Review has a reputation of being an object of affection for those who have been involved with it; in honour of his time spent writing for the CMR and The Beaver, Bernard Levin's name has recently been put to a journalism award run jointly by the LSE and The Times.[4], Karl Popper even had a copy of CMR amongst his personal papers.[5] Beyond simple affection the Clare Market Review's academic presence remains undiminished and the journal continues to be cited in numerous academic works.[6][7][8]
[edit] The Present
With renewed backing from the Students' Union, a group of students are set to re-launch the journal in the summer term of 2008. Looking to take influence from previous incarnations of the Review, their stated aim is to 'challenge a variety of dominant academic discourses, in the process creating a lively, youthful, critical space at the LSE and beyond'.
[edit] references
- ^ Stathatos, J., 1972 Clare Market Review, 46 (3).
- ^ Bardo, P., 1973 Clare Market Review, 47 (1).
- ^ Edgeworth, F, Y., 1907 The Economic Journal, 17 (67). pp. 451-457.
- ^ Flitton, Stuart. "Annual Bernard Levin Award", The Times Newspaper, 2007-05-10. Retrieved on 2008-03-22.
- ^ Plunkett, John. "Register of the Sir Karl Popper Papers", California Digital Library, 2007-09-12. Retrieved on 2008-03-22.
- ^ Berg, M. "A Woman in History", Cambridge University Press, 1996. Retrieved on 2008-03-22.
- ^ Booth, P. "Towards a Liberal Utopia", Continuum, 2006. Retrieved on 2008-03-22.
- ^ Rowse, T. "Nugget Coombs: A Reforming Life", Cambridge University Press, 2005. Retrieved on 2008-03-22.
