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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Sass, Steven A.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Carroll, Donald
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1982
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.) :; 150 illus.
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512806601; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512806601
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: 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 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.