The Pragmatic Imagination : : A History of the Wharton School, 1881-1981 / / Steven A. Sass.
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 entrep...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1982 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (432 p.) :; 150 illus. |
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Table of 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