"Engineering the "Statistical Control of Business
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4298240 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas A Stapleford (0000-0002-5357-2542, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | S1 |
| Pages | 59-84 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2702 • E-ISSN: 1527-1919 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00182702-8717924 |
| OpenAlex | W3083679520 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 26 |
Malcolm Rorty is best known to historians of economics as the primary organizer and founder of the National Bureau of Economic Research. This article situates Rorty's interest in economics against the backdrop of his early career in telephone engineering at American Telephone & Telegraph. I argue that distinct structural features of telephone engineering in general, and AT&T in particular, created overlaps between the practices of engineering and economics, and also opened space for Rorty to craft a broader vision for the "statistical control of business" through quantitatively informed management
Control (management · Craft · Economics · Engineering economics · Management · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Computer Science · Economic Theory and Institutions · Finance · History · Management and Organizational Studies · Social and Cultural Dynamics
The revolt of the engineers
The Pricing of Progress
Creating the Corporate Soul
Administrative behavior
The Visible Hand
The State and Labor in Modern America.
Contrived Competition
American foundations and the support of economic research, 1913?29
The State and Labor in Modern America
The History of Econometric Ideas
Corporate Learning and Traffic Management at the Bell System, 1900–1929
AT&T's Antigovernment Lesson-Drawing in the Political Economy of Networks, 1905-20
Thorstein Veblen and the Engineers
The History of Econometric Ideas
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |