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A Ghost's Memoir: The Making of Alfred P. Sloan's My Years with General Motors

McDonald, John - The MIT Press

Published in 1964, My Years with General Motors was an immediate best-seller and today is considered one of the few classic books on management. The book is the ghostwritten memoir of Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. (1875-1966), whose business and management strategies enabled General Motors to overtake...

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The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency

Kanigel, Robert - The MIT Press

Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man -- the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably enough, as Taylorism. "In the past the man has been first. In the future the System will be...

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The Informational Role of Prices

Grossman, Sanford - The MIT Press

Over the past decade, Sanford Grossman's contributions to the economics of information have significantly altered the …

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Economics for Policymaking: Selected Essays of Arthur M. Okun

Okun, Arthur M. - The MIT Press

Arthur Okun - teacher at Yale in the 1950s, member and later Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors in the 1960s, and Fellow of the Brookings Institution throughout the 1970s - was one of the three or four most important macroeconomists of the past twenty years. He was perhaps...

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Eli Heckscher, International Trade, and Economic History

Findlay, Ronald (contributor); … - The MIT Press

Eli Heckscher (1879-1952) is celebrated for his contributions to international trade theory, particularly the factor proportions theory of comparative advantage in international trade known as the Heckscher-Ohlin theory. His work in both economic theory and economic history is notable for...

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Money, Crises, and Transition: Essays in Honor of Guillermo A. Calvo

Reinhart, Carmen M. (contributor); … - The MIT Press

Guillermo Calvo, one of the most influential macroeconomists of the last thirty years, has made pathbreaking contributions in such areas as time-inconsistency, lack of credibility, stabilization, transition economies, debt maturity, capital flows, and financial crises. His work on macroeconomic...

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Lives of the Laureates, Fourth Edition: Eighteen Nobel Economists

Breit, William (contributor); Hirsch, Barry (contributor) - The MIT Press

essays by eighteen winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics. The essays not only provide unique insights into major economic …: the importance of real world events and a desire for relevance—as seen in James Tobin's decision to enter economics in … order to understand the ruin caused by the Great Depression and in Gary Becker's recourse to economics to help him …

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Equilibrium, Trade, and Growth: Selected Papers, Lionel W. McKenzie

McKenzie, Lionel W. - The MIT Press

Chicago, and the Cowles Commission. In 1957, he went to the University of Rochester to head the economics department there …, and he remains at Rochester, now Wilson Professor Emeritus of Economics. McKenzie's most significant research was … undertaken during a period that saw the development of the major themes of neoclassical economics and the use of fundamental …

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Lives of the Laureates, Fifth Edition: Twenty-three Nobel Economists

Breit, William (contributor); Hirsch, Barry T. (contributor) - The MIT Press

essays by twenty-three Nobel Prize Laureates in Economics. The essays not only provide unique insights into major economic …

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Marshall's Tendencies: What Can Economists Know?

Sutton, John - The MIT Press

The world of economics is a complicated and messy place. Yet modern economic analysis rests on an attempt to represent …

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