TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sass,Steven A.
AU  - Carroll,Donald
TI  - The Pragmatic Imagination: A History of the Wharton School, 1881-1981 
SN  - 9780812278149
AV  - HF1134.P46 
U1  - 658.00711748 18
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - EDUCATION / History
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
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