Education:

B.A., Brooklyn College, 1948

M.A., Yale University, 1949

Ph.D., Columbia University, 1954

Honors:

Ford Foundation teaching internship at the University of Chicago, 1953-1954

Business History Fellowship at the Harvard Business School, 1961-1962

Positions:

Queens College, 1954-1956

Douglass College, 1956

University of Minnesota, 1956-1961

Boston University, 1962—

Books:

International Business Machines (New York: Arno Press, 1976).

Power and Morality: American Business Ethics, 1840-1914 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980).

The Man Who Found the Money: John Stewart Kennedy and the Financing of the Western Railroads (co-authored with Leonard Bushkoff) (Michigan State University Press, 1996).

Articles:

“Reckoning Your Bliss Point,” Columbia University Forum, III (Fall 1960), 27-31.

“Insatiability, a Problem for Utopia?” American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 22 (January 1963), 129-140.

“The Prospects for American Economic History,” Explorations in Entrepreneurial History, Second Series, 1 (Winter 1964), 207-210.

“Some Consequences of the Leasing of Industrial Machinery,” Journal of Business, XXXIX (January 1966), 52-66.

“The Applicability of the American Model for Developing Countries,” Comparative Studies in Society and History, X (January 1968), 211-214.

“A Corporation with a Soul: The IBM Spirit,” International Review of History and Political Science, V (February 1968), 28-39.

“Behind the Throne: A Non-Morgan View of the Panic of 1907,” International Review of the History of Banking, IV (1971), 141-157.

“Edward A. Filene: Merchant, Civic Leader, and Jew,” American Jewish Historical Quarterly, LXVI (September 1976), 106-122.

“The Economic Impact of the Civil War on Manufacturing Enterprise,” Business History, XXI (July 1979), 148-161.

“Joseph S. Davis: ‘the evolution of one economist’s work,’” History of Political Economy, 12 (1980), 243-266.

“The Council of Economic Advisers and the Recession of 1953-1954,” Business History Review, LIV (Summer 1980), 192-214.

“Power and Morality: American Business Ethics, 1840-1914,” and “Behind the Throne: A Non-Morgan View of the Panic of 1907,” reprinted in Jack Blicksilver, ed., Views on U. S. Economic and Business History: Molding the Mixed Enterprise Economy (1985), pp. 297-303, 339-350.

“John Stewart Kennedy: Railroad Commission Merchant, Private Banker, and Philanthropist,” Edwin J. Perkins, ed., Essays in Economic and Business History, IV (1986), 98-108.

“John Stewart Kennedy and the City of Glasgow Bank,” Jeremy Atack, ed., Business and Economic History, 15 (1986), 69-84.

“Two ‘Souths’: The United States and Italy Since the 1860’s,” Journal of European Economic History, 15 (Winter 1986), 563-589.

“The Steadfastness of Economic Dualism in Italy,” Journal of Developing Areas, 22 (July 1988), 515-526.

“John Stewart Kennedy,” in Robert L. Frey, ed., Railroads in the Nineteenth Century, 1988.

“John Stewart Kennedy and the Scottish American Investment Company,” Essays in Economic and Business History, VI (1988), 37-54.

“John Stewart Kennedy,” in Larry Schweikart, ed., Banking and Finance to 1913, 1990.

“The South: Retrospect and Prospect,” Regional Science Review, 17 (1990), 183-189.

“Predications and Developments: The Mezzogiorno,” Essays in Economic and Business History, XII (1994), 1-9.

Papers:

“Energy and Industrialization,” Energy Institute, Southeastern Massachusetts University, June 1977.

Discussant, “The United States and World War II: Domestic Repercussions,” Duquesne History Forum, October 1977.

“Energy and Industrialization: The Case of Southern New England,” originally presented at the 1978 conference of the Economic and Business Historical Society and now included in Essays in Economic and Business History: Selected Papers from the Economic and Business Historical Society, 1976, 1977, and 1978. Associate editor of this selection.

Discussant, “The Rise of Big Business: Aspects of Reform and Reorganization,” Business History Conference, March 1980.

“Two ‘Souths’: The United States and Italy Since the 1860s,” Economic and Business History Society, April 1982.

A scholar reviewed my book, Power and Morality: American Business Ethics, 1840-1914, and I replied, Economic and Business History Society, April 1982.

“The Mezzogiorno Since World War II: The Problem of Alice in Wonderland” (with Gustav Schachter), New England Historical Association, October 1983.

“John Stewart Kennedy: Railroad Commission Merchant, Private Banker, and Philanthropist,” Economic and Business History Society, April 1984.

“The Steadfastness of Economic Dualism in Italy,” American Association for Italian Studies, April 1985.

“John Stewart Kennedy and the City of Glasgow Bank,” Business History Conference, March 1986.

“The South: Retrospect and Prospect,” Northeast Regional Science Association, May 1989.

“Predictions and Developments: The Mezzogiorno,” Economic and Business Historical Society, April 1992.

“The Free Trade Myth of the Physiocratic Movement of the 1700s,” Eleventh International Economic History Congress, Milan, Italy, September 1994.

Reviews in the American Historical Review, Business History Review, Economic History Review, Journal of Economic History, and elsewhere.

Committees:

CLA Admissions

GRS Admissions, Chairman

CLA, ad hoc Approaches to Teaching

GRS, Academic Standards, Chairman

CLA, Committee and Committees

CLA, Social Science Curriculum, Chairman

CLA/GRS, Social Science Curriculum

University, Clinical Research Review