Gardiner C. Means: Administration

Gardiner C. Means was American economist. Explore interesting quotes on administration.
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“It is in the development of further administrative coordination that we must come to political scientists for aid. We ask that you apply to the field of economic administration the technique of analysis and principles of organization which you have developed in the study of administrative organization in the form of the state.”

Gardiner C. Means

Source: "The Distribution of Control and Responsibility in a Modern Economy", 1935, p. 64

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“Gradually but steadily, great segments of economic activity have been shifted from the market place to administration.”

Gardiner C. Means

Source: "The Distribution of Control and Responsibility in a Modern Economy", 1935, p. 67; as cited in: Dimock (1937; 29)

“Earlier writers have recognized that economic activity is only in part trading and that the element of administration enters in, but they have tended to minimize this administrative aspect. The modern corporation has not only increased this aspect by bringing a greater part of economic activity within the administrative limits of single units, has altered the character of the market by making price not an outgrowth of trading but of administration.”

Gardiner C. Means

Source: The Corporate Revolution in America, 1957, p. 18

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