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Book Review: Gunnar Myrdal And America's Conscience: Social Engineering And Racial Liberalism, 1938-1987. By Walter A. Jackson, Ann Mari May
Book Review: Gunnar Myrdal And America's Conscience: Social Engineering And Racial Liberalism, 1938-1987. By Walter A. Jackson, Ann Mari May
College of Business: Faculty Publications
Walter A. Jackson's Gunnar Myrdal and America's Conscience is more than a biographical sketch of a unique political economist. It is a fine piece of intellectual history that institutionalists, in particular, will appreciate. Jackson gracefully examines the development of Myrdal's thought as a political economist and its influence on his study of race relations, paying mindful attention to the historical context and personal influences shaping Myrdal's work. As a result of Jackson's research, we understand more fully not only the influence of Myrdal's approach as a political economist on his study of race relations, but the way Myrdal impacted the …
Class Conflict, Corporate Power, And Macroeconomic Policy: The Impact Of Inflation In The Postwar Period, Ann Mari May, Randy R. Grant
Class Conflict, Corporate Power, And Macroeconomic Policy: The Impact Of Inflation In The Postwar Period, Ann Mari May, Randy R. Grant
College of Business: Faculty Publications
When Richard Nixon ran for the presidency in 1968, he declared that inflation was America's number one problem. While opinion polls showed otherwise, an undaunted Nixon set about to reduce inflation and to convince the public of the dangers of rising prices. To help in this effort, the Council of Economic Advisors initiated a study to identify those impacted adversely by inflation. The study, however, was disappointing. According to Herbert Stein, “If anyone was being severely hurt, the available statistics were too crude to reveal it.”
Nixon was not the first, nor was he the last president to warn of …
An Agenda For Research On Economic Education In Colleges And Universities, William Becker, Robert Highsmith, Peter Kennedy, William Walstad
An Agenda For Research On Economic Education In Colleges And Universities, William Becker, Robert Highsmith, Peter Kennedy, William Walstad
College of Business: Faculty Publications
The quantity of research on economic education at the college and university level declined during the past decade. In the 1980-90 period, the number of research- related articles on economics instruction in higher education fell by about 17 percent from the number published during the 1969-79 period. A possible reason for this reduction may have been the publication of a review of research on economic education at the college and university level by John Siegfried and Rendigs Fels (1979). This extensive survey may have inadvertently led researchers to believe that most of the major topics at this level had been …
The Effects Of Airline Strikes On Struck And Nonstruck Carriers, Richard Defusco, Scott M. Fuess Jr.
The Effects Of Airline Strikes On Struck And Nonstruck Carriers, Richard Defusco, Scott M. Fuess Jr.
Department of Finance: Faculty Publications
This study provides new evidence on the industry-wide impact of strikes by investigating how strikes have affected the values of struck and nonstruck airlines. Using stock market data for the years 1963-86, the authors show that most strikes adversely affected the value of struck airlines' stock but enhanced the stock value of nonstruck carriers. The results also show that strikes before October 1978, which marked the end of strict regulation of the industry and of the employers' mutual aid pact, had some effects different from those of strikes after that date.
The Transformation Of Professionals Into Self-Managing And Partially Self-Designing Contributors: Toward A Theory Of Leadership-Making, George B. Graen, Mary Uhl-Bien
The Transformation Of Professionals Into Self-Managing And Partially Self-Designing Contributors: Toward A Theory Of Leadership-Making, George B. Graen, Mary Uhl-Bien
Department of Management: Faculty Publications
Self-managing teams are rapidly approaching the popularity of Quality Circles in both the popular and organizational literature. However, before this promising notion becomes the next panacea for the ills of our declining international competitiveness, we must investigate the fundamental question of how superior managed professionals become transformed into self-managers. This paper presents a model of a leadership-making process which purports to produce the transformation of superior manager professionals into self-managing and partially self-designing units. The focus of this paper is on the upper end of the self- managing category of Hackman’s (1986) authority matrix. A life cycle model of leadership-making …
Leadership-Making Applies Equally Well To Sponsors, Competence Networks, And Teammates, George Graen, Mary Uhl-Bien
Leadership-Making Applies Equally Well To Sponsors, Competence Networks, And Teammates, George Graen, Mary Uhl-Bien
Department of Management: Faculty Publications
Teams are rapidly becoming the management technique of choice in American industry (Fortune, 1990). Spurred on by the pervasive and often dramatic success of Japanese management in America at places like NUMMI in Freemont, California, Honda, in Marysville, Ohio, NISSAN in Smyrna, Tennessee, MAZAK, in Florence, Kentucky, DENSO in Battle Creek, Michigan, and J.V.C. in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, team organizations are being implemented in large (General Electric and General Motors) and small American companies. Our study of Japanese transplants in the U.S. (Graen & Wakabayashi, 1990) suggests that several hybrid versions of Japanese team organizations work most effectively with American employees. …