The Pragmatic Imagination : A History of the Wharton School, 1881-1981 / Steven A. Sass.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sass, Steven A., Author.

Contributor:

Carroll, Donald

Series:

Anniversary Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wharton School--History.

Wharton School.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 p.) : 150 illus.

Edition:

Reprint 2016

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A history of the emergence of the most prominent business school in the United States, this volume also constitutes a probing study of the role of authority in the development of American culture. Steven A. Sass traces Joseph Wharton's experiment from its origins in the ironmaster's entrepreneurial ethos; through the vigorous Mugwumpery of the 1880s; to the Gospel of the Progressive Era of civic revival and practical education; into the crises of depression and war; through the flowering of econometrics and operations research; down to the present-day vogue for the M.B.A.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Foreword

A Plausible Introduction

1. Joseph Wharton, Ironmaster

2. The Philadelphia School of Finance and Economy

3. The School of Practical Affairs: The College of Political and Social Science

4. On the Firing Line of Civilization

5. Getting Down to Business

6. Cranking Up the Professional Machine

7. The Institutions of Industrial Research

8. Taking Stock

9. Models, Mathematics, and the Apotheosis of Economic Theory

10. Masters of Business Administration

Index

Notes:

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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781512806601

1512806609

OCLC:

979970655