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Robert Oakeshott was of a man of humorous eccentricity and intoxicating discourse, a man of many lives.

As an Oxford undergraduate in 1956 he hitch-hiked into Budapest at the height of the student-led revolution, carrying nothing but moral support and a suitcase of penicillin.

Then foreign correspondent for the Financial Times, key development officer in Zambia at the time of independence, alternative educationist in Botswana.

He founded a think tank in the UK to promote justice and fairness in the workplace through employee ownership, an economic model that he took to Eastern Europe in the 1990s.

Simultaneously, he was a generous philanthropist who played a leading role in the founding of pioneering charities.

The Quintessential English Eccentric: ROBERT OAKESHOTT: Hero of the Hungarian Revolution, Champion of African Development and Employee Ownership

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Robert Oakeshott was of a man of humorous eccentricity and intoxicating discourse, a man of many lives. As an Oxford... Read more

    Publisher: Brown Dog Books
    Publication Date: 19/12/2022
    ISBN13: 9781839525841, 978-1839525841
    ISBN10: 1839525843

    Number of Pages: 256

    Non Fiction , Biography

    Description

    Robert Oakeshott was of a man of humorous eccentricity and intoxicating discourse, a man of many lives.

    As an Oxford undergraduate in 1956 he hitch-hiked into Budapest at the height of the student-led revolution, carrying nothing but moral support and a suitcase of penicillin.

    Then foreign correspondent for the Financial Times, key development officer in Zambia at the time of independence, alternative educationist in Botswana.

    He founded a think tank in the UK to promote justice and fairness in the workplace through employee ownership, an economic model that he took to Eastern Europe in the 1990s.

    Simultaneously, he was a generous philanthropist who played a leading role in the founding of pioneering charities.

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