Louis Galambos
Louis Galambos (born April 4, 1931 ) is an American historian who researched corporate history .
Life
Louis Galambos studied at Indiana University , where he received a Bachelor of Arts in history in 1955 . He then continued his studies at Yale University , where he received a Master of Arts in history in 1957 and a Ph.D. PhD . From 1960 he taught at Rice University , from 1960 to 1966 as an assistant professor , from 1966 to 1969 as an associate professor, and from 1969 to 1970 as a professor. From 1970 to 1971 he was a professor at Rutgers University . In 1971 Galambos moved to Johns Hopkins University , where he has taught as a professor of history ever since. He has also been editor of The Papers of Dwight-David Eisenhower since 1971 .
From 1975 to 1978 he was co-editor with Rondo Cameron of the journal The Journal of Economic History . He is also co-editor of various books published by Cambridge University Press , such as Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise (together with Geoffrey G. Jones ), Comparative Perspectives in Business History (together with Franco Amatori) and Studies in Economic History and Policy: The United States in the Twentieth Century series (with Robert Gallman).
Galambos was Vice President from 1979 to 1980 and President of the Economic History Association from 1986 to 1987 . From 1991 to 1992 he was President of the Business History Conference .
In 2007 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Business History Conference.
Publications (selection)
- Competition and Cooperation: The Emergence of a Modern Trade Association (1966, The Johns Hopkins University Press)
- American Business History (1967, Service Center for Teachers of History)
- with Barbara Barrow Spence: The Public Image of Big Business in America, 1880-1940: A Quantitative Study in Social Change (1975, The Johns Hopkins University Press)
- Americaat Middle Age: A New History of the United States in the Twentieth Century (1982, McGraw-Hill)
- with Peter Temin: The Fall of the Bell System: A Study in Prices and Politics (1987, Cambridge University Press )
- with Daun van Ee: The Diaries of Dwight David Eisenhower, 1953-1961 (1987, University Publications of America)
- with Joseph Pratt: The Rise of the Corporate Commonwealth: US Business and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century (1988, Basic Books)
- with Jane Eliot Sewell: Networks of Innovation: Vaccine Development at Merck, Sharp & Dohme, and Mulford, 1895-1995 (1995, Cambridge University Press)
- with Eric Abrahamson: Anytime, Anywhere: Entrepreneurship and the Creation of a Wireless World (2002, Cambridge University Press)
- with P. Roy Vagelos: Medicine, Science and Merck (2004, Cambridge University Press)
- with P. Roy Vagelos: The Moral Corporation (2006, Cambridge University Press)
- with Jessica Ziparo: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Publications, 1991-2010, on Dwight David Eisenhower (2011, The Eisenhower Institute)
- The Creative Society - and the Price Americans Paid for It (2012, Cambridge University Press)
Web links
- Curriculum Vitae , Johns Hopkins University website
Individual evidence
- ^ Lifetime Achievement Award , Business History Conference website
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Galambos, Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1931 |