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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©1982Edition: Reprint 2016Description: 1 online resource (432 p.) : 150 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812278149
  • 9781512806601
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.00711748 18
LOC classification:
  • HF1134.P46
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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