Lester C Thurow

Biographic Data

ID293574
NAMELester C Thurow
GIVEN NAMESLester C
FAMILY NAMEThurow
SIGNATURETHUROW L C
AFFILIATIONSMassachusetts Institute of Technology
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS46
TOTAL CITATIONS134
AUTHOR COUNT46
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1965
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
H-INDEX5

  • The Moral Fog of Progress ‐ Fall 2003

    Open AccessLeón R Kass, LEON KASS et al.ARTICLENew Perspectives Quarterly2008

  • Do Only Economic Illiterates Argue that Trade Can Destroy Jobs and Lower America's National Income

    Lester C ThurowARTICLESocial research2004

    Lester C. Thurow Do Only Economic Illiterates Argue that Trade Can Destroy Jobs and Lower America’s National Income? MUCH OF ROBERT H EILBRONER’ S CRITIQUE OF ECONOMICS HAS TO DO with the economic profession’s wish to be seen as a science with known constants and well-understood m athem atical equations. To make the standard mathematical models work, actual homo sapiens had to be replaced with an imaginary super-rational homo economicus, who bore…

  • Globalization: The Product of a Knowledge-Based Economy

    Open AccessLester C ThurowARTICLEThe Annals of the American…2000Cited by: 15

    The shift to an era of man-made brain-power industries is creating the technologies that are creating a global economy. Leaving behind the role of regulator or the function of controlling their national economies, governments are becoming platform builders that invest in infrastructure, education, and research and development to allow their citizens to have the opportunity to earn world-class standards of living. Countries themselves are being pu…

  • A Glass Half Full? Thurow Dissects the Third Industrial Revolution

    Jeffrey E Garten, Lester C ThurowARTICLEForeign Affairs1999Cited by: 1

  • The World Bank: Its First Half Century

    Lester C Thurow, John P Lewis et al.REVIEWForeign Policy1998Cited by: 1

    This effort constitutes the most comprehensive and authoritative work to date on the history of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, or the World Bank. Author-editors John Lewis, Richard Webb, and Devesh Kapur chronicle the evolution of this institution and offer insights into its successes, failures, and prospects for the future. The result of their intense labors is an invaluable resource for other researchers and a fascin…

  • The Future of Capitalism: How Today's Economic Forces Will Shape Tomorrow's World

    Richard N Cooper, Lester C ThurowARTICLEForeign Affairs1996Cited by: 1

  • Microchips, Not Potato Chips

    Lester C ThurowARTICLEForeign Affairs1994Cited by: 1

    gories to make his point, although the data he draws on clearly show that a huge industry like electronics consists of many sectors, some with high value added and others with low. Overall, Krugman notes a figure of value added per worker in the electronics industry of only $64,000. But why did he ignore the tables showing the figures of $443,000 for computers and $234,000 for semiconductors? Krugman concludes by expressing fear of the possible d…

  • Free Market Fallacies

    Lester C Thurow, Laura D'Andrea Tyson et al.ARTICLEForeign Policy1993

  • Head to head: The coming economic battle among Japan, Europe, and America

    Lester C ThurowBOOKHead to head1992Cited by: 24

  • American Mirage

    Lester C ThurowARTICLECurrent History1989

    Essay| January 01 1989 American Mirage: A Post-Industrial Economy? Lester C. Thurow Lester C. Thurow Professor of Economics and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lester C. Thurow is dean of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management. He has written widely on economic topics and has been a contributing editor of Newsweek magazine. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar …

  • The Economic Black Hole

    Lester C Thurow, Laura D'Andrea Tyson et al.ARTICLEForeign Policy1987Cited by: 5

  • The Management Challenge: Japanese Views

    James Lincoln, James R Lincoln et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1986

    What works for the Japanese? As our nation's balance of trade with Japan dips Eastward, American managers ask how Japan's economy has outperformed ours during the past 30 years. Some of the answers may be found in the original contributions in this book which are unique in presenting Japanese management as the Japanese see it. They provide American managers with insights into practices that may spark new solutions to old economic problems.Chapter…

  • The Zero-Sum Solution

    William Diebold, Lester C ThurowARTICLEForeign Affairs1986Cited by: 4

  • The Management Challenge. Japanese Views

    Andrea Boltho, Lester C Thurow et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1986

  • Economic Prospects for the Northeast

    Lester C Thurow, Herbert W Richardson et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1985

  • Public Intervention in the Industry: The Case of the U.S.A

    Open AccessLester C ThurowARTICLEAnnals of Public and Cooperative…1985

    Annals of Public and Cooperative EconomicsVolume 56, Issue 1-2 p. 41-49 PUBLIC INTERVENTION IN THE INDUSTRY: The Case of the U.S.A. Lester C. THUROW, Lester C. THUROW Professor at M.I.T. (U.S.A.)Search for more papers by this author Lester C. THUROW, Lester C. THUROW Professor at M.I.T. (U.S.A.)Search for more papers by this author First published: January 1985 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8292.1985.tb01977.x Oral report. See written paper in A…

  • Toward Socio-Economics

    Amitai Etzioni, Lester C ThurowARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1985Cited by: 2

  • The Supply Side Revolution: An Insider's Account of Policymaking in Washington

    Lester C Thurow, Paul Craig Roberts et al.ARTICLEEconomica1985

  • Résumés ‐ Abstracts ‐ Zusammenfassungen

    Open AccessLester C ThurowARTICLEAnnals of Public and Cooperative…1984

  • The Need For Industrial Policies The Case of The U.S.A

    Open AccessLester C ThurowARTICLEAnnals of Public and Cooperative…1984

  • A World Class American Economy

    Lester C Thurow, Lester ThurowARTICLEThe Tocqueville Review/La revue…1984

    Let me make an argument to you today. I want to argue that the economy that we are going to know in the rest of the 1980s and the 1990s is going to be radically different, from what we in America have been used to in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. It’s going to be radically different because something has happened that most of us know intellectually but that very few of us know in the pit of our stomach, and we are going to learn it in the pit of our sto…

  • Dangerous Currents: The State of Economics

    Thomas Wilson, Lester C ThurowARTICLEThe Economic Journal1984Cited by: 7

    Journal Article Dangerous Currents: The State of Economics Get access Dangerous Currents: The State of Economics. By LESTER C. THUROW. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983. Pp. xv + 247. £15.00 hardback, £5.95 paperback). Thomas Wilson Thomas Wilson University of Glasgow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 94, Issue 376, 1 December 1984, Pages 970–972, https://doi.org/10.2307/223…

  • Building a world-class economy

    Open AccessLester C ThurowARTICLESociety1984Cited by: 3References: 1

  • The zero-sum society: Distribution and the Possibilities for Economic Change

    Lester C ThurowBOOKThe zero-sum society1981Cited by: 25

  • The Zero-Sum Society

    Tom Cate, Lester C ThurowARTICLESouthern Economic Journal1981