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Nils Gilman
"Peter Drucker and the Intellectual Origins of Management Theory"

Drucker's lifelong efforts to put capitalism's primary institution, the corporation, on a firm footing should be seen as a practical political effort to counter midcentury Keynesian and liberal orthodoxies that distrusted businessmen and favored government management of the economy.

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