The Peripatetic Institute

If all goes according to plan, by the end of 1998 a new building will stand at the end of Manor Road, to house an Economics Centre which will include all economists in established University posts, externally funded researchers, and all Economics administration. There will be an Economics library incorporating the library presently housed in the St.Cross Building. In the course of these chages, the Institute of Economics and Statistics will cease to exist. This may be an appropriate moment, therefore, to relate the story of how the Institute of Statistics (as it then was) came to be a founder occupant of the new St.Cross Building when it was opened in 1964.