The Pragmatic Imagination: A History of the Wharton School, 1881-1981

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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.