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Decision Making and Modern Institutional Change

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  • Chandler, Alfred D.

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When I began to prepare this talk, I recalled that the first such address I ever listened to helped persuade me to become an economic historian. It was Herbert Heaton's delightful “The Making of an Economic Historian,” which began with a bit of elegant doggerel. If a discipline could produce such an address, I decided that this association was certainly worth joining. But alas, I was optimistic. I was to hear more erudite presidential addresses but few so witty and informative. Nearly all these rituals, in this association or others, have followed the traditional recipe so well summarized by Shepard Clough. In a systematic review of our past meetings Shep found that “most of our presidential addresses have been devoted to making suggestions for research (mostly to be undertaken by others), to delineating the broad ‘tasks’ of economic history, to defending the kind of work in which the speaker has been engaged, and to advocating some particular methodology in our discipline.” Mine is no exception.

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  • Chandler, Alfred D., 1973. "Decision Making and Modern Institutional Change," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 33(1), pages 1-15, March.
  • Handle: RePEc:cup:jechis:v:33:y:1973:i:01:p:1-15_07
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    1. David C. Mowery, 2010. "Alfred Chandler and knowledge management within the firm," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC, vol. 19(2), pages 483-507, April.
    2. Jean-Jacques Rosa & Xavier Vanssay, 2012. "Information, organization, and freedom: Explaining the great reversal," The Review of Austrian Economics, Springer;Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, vol. 25(4), pages 329-350, December.

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