VOL.XXXIXNo. 5728-October-1996GENERAL

ProfessorEdith Penrose - An Obituary-ONProfessor Edith Penrose died peacefully at her home in Waterbeach,Cambridge on 11 October aged 81. Edith was Emeritus Professor of Economicsat the University of London and Emeritus Professor of Political Economy atINSEAD. In terms of mainstream economics, her chiefcontribution lay in the book The Theory of the Growth ofthe Firm first published in 1959. So influential was this work thatit was reprinted last year and...