Robert Van Horn
Biographic Data
| ID | 279886 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Van Horn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Horn |
| SIGNATURE | VAN HORN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rhode Island |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Christian Olaf Christiansen. Progressive Business: An Intellectual History of the Role of Business in American Society
The “soulful corporation” and “corporate citizenship” are conceptions of the role of business in society that contrast with the credo “The business of business is business.” According to Christian Olaf Christiansen, they are conceptions from different time periods that capture the distinct yet perennial spirit of the moral self-regulation of business. In Progressive Business: An Intellectual History of the Role of Business in American Society, Ch…
Corporations and the rise of Chicago law and economics
This paper explores the dynamic relationship between corporations and Chicago law and economics from 1946 through the mid-1950s. It argues that corporations and Chicago law and economics had a mutually beneficial relationship, especially after the birth of Chicago neoliberalism in 1950. Corporations made possible the rise of Chicago law and economics through funding and advice. Chicago law and economics in return provided scholarly research that …
Introduction to the Symposium on the Contributions of Business to Economics
This essay introduces the symposium and records some reflections from symposium participants on the role of businesses in the formation of economic ideas. What are some specific challenges in researching the contributions of businesspersons to economics? Which topics or events involving the role of businesspersons in economics are most in need of scholarly analysis? What are some of the key historical trends that can be discerned in how businessp…
Capitalist Threads: Engels the Businessman and Marx's Capital
This essay illuminates a neglected aspect of Friedrich Engels's life: his work at his family's textile firm, Ermen & Engels, in Manchester, the hub of the cotton industry in the mid-nineteenth century. We argue that Engels was a merchant and an intelligencer with a detailed, comprehensive understanding of products and the movements of goods, orders, and prices in the global cotton trade. The statistical insights Engels gleaned on matters such as …
Henry Simons's Death
In spite of disagreement over whether or not Henry Simons committed suicide, no one has written about the circumstances surrounding his death. The purpose of this essay is to draw from archival material-much of which has been recently unearthed-to examine Simons's death in detail. This essay enriches the debate over the nature of Simons's death by offering an account that brings together evidence that sheds light on the circumstances surrounding …
Chicago neoliberalism versus Cowles planning: Perspectives on patents and public goods in Cold War Economic Thought
In post-SputnikAmerica, when many policymakers and social scientists feared the Soviet Union had a technological advantage over the United States, assessing the relative importance of patents for inventive activity and examining whether scientific research constituted a public good were paramount concerns. The neoliberals of the University of Chicago and the planners of the Cowles Commission both spoke to these issues. This paper sheds light on t…
Harry Aaron Director: The Coming of Age of a Reformer Skeptic (1914-24)
This article concentrates on the life of Aaron Director at Lincoln High School in Portland, Oregon (1914-21), and at Yale University (1921-24). Its primary purposes are to examine the juvenilia of Director in order to analyze the evolution of his worldview and to shed light on Director's life at this time through the use of archival and secondary sources. Tracing the evolution of Director's worldview leads to three claims. First, Director maintai…
The Contract Research Organization and the Commercialization of Scientific Research
The early 1980s constituted a watershed in science, mainly concerning the extent and nature of globalization and commercialization of scientific research, and its impact upon the university. Considerable debate has arisen about the sources of this transition, but aside from a few lone voices, the scholarly literature has neglected the concurrent rise of the contract research organization (CRO) and its role int he commercialization of scientific r…
Trade Union Theory from Marx to Walesa
Part 1 Marx and Engels - the key statements: the condition of the working class in England the poverty of philosophy the manifesto of the Communist Party wage labour and capital inaugural address wages, price and profit the instructions for the delegates Capital, volume 1 contra anarchism and anarcho-syndicalism. Part 2 Karl Marx on trade union independence - the reception of the Hamann interview of 30 September 1869. Part 3 The main implications…
A Survey of Accommodation Needs, Capabilities and Desires of Handicapped People
A survey of the accommodation needs of eighty‐three handicapped people in the Sydney area is described. Results suggest that present accommodation is more a function of opportunity and finance than of preferred choice, and that there is a demand among disabled people of all ages for more independent housing
Government take-over of the social indicators movement
Labour Economics-Australia
The Contract Research Organization and the Commercialization of Scientific Research
The early 1980s constituted a watershed in science, mainly concerning the extent and nature of globalization and commercialization of scientific research, and its impact upon the university. Considerable debate has arisen about the sources of this transition, but aside from a few lone voices, the scholarly literature has neglected the concurrent rise of the contract research organization (CRO) and its role int he commercialization of scientific r…
Chicago neoliberalism versus Cowles planning: Perspectives on patents and public goods in Cold War Economic Thought
In post-SputnikAmerica, when many policymakers and social scientists feared the Soviet Union had a technological advantage over the United States, assessing the relative importance of patents for inventive activity and examining whether scientific research constituted a public good were paramount concerns. The neoliberals of the University of Chicago and the planners of the Cowles Commission both spoke to these issues. This paper sheds light on t…
Henry Simons's Death
In spite of disagreement over whether or not Henry Simons committed suicide, no one has written about the circumstances surrounding his death. The purpose of this essay is to draw from archival material-much of which has been recently unearthed-to examine Simons's death in detail. This essay enriches the debate over the nature of Simons's death by offering an account that brings together evidence that sheds light on the circumstances surrounding …
Corporations and the rise of Chicago law and economics
This paper explores the dynamic relationship between corporations and Chicago law and economics from 1946 through the mid-1950s. It argues that corporations and Chicago law and economics had a mutually beneficial relationship, especially after the birth of Chicago neoliberalism in 1950. Corporations made possible the rise of Chicago law and economics through funding and advice. Chicago law and economics in return provided scholarly research that …
Introduction to the Symposium on the Contributions of Business to Economics
This essay introduces the symposium and records some reflections from symposium participants on the role of businesses in the formation of economic ideas. What are some specific challenges in researching the contributions of businesspersons to economics? Which topics or events involving the role of businesspersons in economics are most in need of scholarly analysis? What are some of the key historical trends that can be discerned in how businessp…
Harry Aaron Director: The Coming of Age of a Reformer Skeptic (1914-24)
This article concentrates on the life of Aaron Director at Lincoln High School in Portland, Oregon (1914-21), and at Yale University (1921-24). Its primary purposes are to examine the juvenilia of Director in order to analyze the evolution of his worldview and to shed light on Director's life at this time through the use of archival and secondary sources. Tracing the evolution of Director's worldview leads to three claims. First, Director maintai…
Capitalist Threads: Engels the Businessman and Marx's Capital
This essay illuminates a neglected aspect of Friedrich Engels's life: his work at his family's textile firm, Ermen & Engels, in Manchester, the hub of the cotton industry in the mid-nineteenth century. We argue that Engels was a merchant and an intelligencer with a detailed, comprehensive understanding of products and the movements of goods, orders, and prices in the global cotton trade. The statistical insights Engels gleaned on matters such as …
Labour Economics-Australia
Government take-over of the social indicators movement
A Survey of Accommodation Needs, Capabilities and Desires of Handicapped People
A survey of the accommodation needs of eighty‐three handicapped people in the Sydney area is described. Results suggest that present accommodation is more a function of opportunity and finance than of preferred choice, and that there is a demand among disabled people of all ages for more independent housing
Trade Union Theory from Marx to Walesa
Part 1 Marx and Engels - the key statements: the condition of the working class in England the poverty of philosophy the manifesto of the Communist Party wage labour and capital inaugural address wages, price and profit the instructions for the delegates Capital, volume 1 contra anarchism and anarcho-syndicalism. Part 2 Karl Marx on trade union independence - the reception of the Hamann interview of 30 September 1869. Part 3 The main implications…
The Contract Research Organization and the Commercialization of Scientific Research
The early 1980s constituted a watershed in science, mainly concerning the extent and nature of globalization and commercialization of scientific research, and its impact upon the university. Considerable debate has arisen about the sources of this transition, but aside from a few lone voices, the scholarly literature has neglected the concurrent rise of the contract research organization (CRO) and its role int he commercialization of scientific r…
Harry Aaron Director: The Coming of Age of a Reformer Skeptic (1914-24)
This article concentrates on the life of Aaron Director at Lincoln High School in Portland, Oregon (1914-21), and at Yale University (1921-24). Its primary purposes are to examine the juvenilia of Director in order to analyze the evolution of his worldview and to shed light on Director's life at this time through the use of archival and secondary sources. Tracing the evolution of Director's worldview leads to three claims. First, Director maintai…
Chicago neoliberalism versus Cowles planning: Perspectives on patents and public goods in Cold War Economic Thought
In post-SputnikAmerica, when many policymakers and social scientists feared the Soviet Union had a technological advantage over the United States, assessing the relative importance of patents for inventive activity and examining whether scientific research constituted a public good were paramount concerns. The neoliberals of the University of Chicago and the planners of the Cowles Commission both spoke to these issues. This paper sheds light on t…
Henry Simons's Death
In spite of disagreement over whether or not Henry Simons committed suicide, no one has written about the circumstances surrounding his death. The purpose of this essay is to draw from archival material-much of which has been recently unearthed-to examine Simons's death in detail. This essay enriches the debate over the nature of Simons's death by offering an account that brings together evidence that sheds light on the circumstances surrounding …
Introduction to the Symposium on the Contributions of Business to Economics
This essay introduces the symposium and records some reflections from symposium participants on the role of businesses in the formation of economic ideas. What are some specific challenges in researching the contributions of businesspersons to economics? Which topics or events involving the role of businesspersons in economics are most in need of scholarly analysis? What are some of the key historical trends that can be discerned in how businessp…
Capitalist Threads: Engels the Businessman and Marx's Capital
This essay illuminates a neglected aspect of Friedrich Engels's life: his work at his family's textile firm, Ermen & Engels, in Manchester, the hub of the cotton industry in the mid-nineteenth century. We argue that Engels was a merchant and an intelligencer with a detailed, comprehensive understanding of products and the movements of goods, orders, and prices in the global cotton trade. The statistical insights Engels gleaned on matters such as …
Christian Olaf Christiansen. Progressive Business: An Intellectual History of the Role of Business in American Society
The “soulful corporation” and “corporate citizenship” are conceptions of the role of business in society that contrast with the credo “The business of business is business.” According to Christian Olaf Christiansen, they are conceptions from different time periods that capture the distinct yet perennial spirit of the moral self-regulation of business. In Progressive Business: An Intellectual History of the Role of Business in American Society, Ch…
Corporations and the rise of Chicago law and economics
This paper explores the dynamic relationship between corporations and Chicago law and economics from 1946 through the mid-1950s. It argues that corporations and Chicago law and economics had a mutually beneficial relationship, especially after the birth of Chicago neoliberalism in 1950. Corporations made possible the rise of Chicago law and economics through funding and advice. Chicago law and economics in return provided scholarly research that …
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