Editor’s Column
Editor’s Column
复制标题
编辑专栏
DOI：
--
复制
发表时间：
1951
期刊：
影响因子：
--
通讯作者：
Françoise Sagan
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Françoise Sagan
Current教授在文章《技术与推广：打字机》中，举了一个突出的例子，说明商人和公司对技术发展的贡献。他即将出版一本关于“打字机之父”和打字机早期商业推动者的综合传记。Current教授是伊利诺伊大学历史系的一员。索尔斯坦·凡勃伦在1921年出版的《工程师与价格体系》一书中，忽略了经济增长中的一个重要现实，即工程师和商人都是经济发展所必需的。在他的第二篇文章“马萨诸塞州四条铁路的早期商业历史”中，肯尼迪教授特别讨论了铁路建设，他展示了在铁路发展的早期阶段，商人们的工作是多么重要。罗伯特·w·洛维特在本期《公报》上的一篇文章中提到，乡绅兰图尔和他的药店是一个家族和一个财富的创始人，在美国商业中起着不可忽视的作用。这位乡绅的儿子在伊利诺伊中央铁路的创立和土地政策的发展过程中是一个重要的人物，这一政策后来成为许多其他道路效仿的模式。如今，乡绅兰图尔的后代活跃在几个商业领域。商业史上具有讽刺意味的是，关于商业失败的信息消失了，但成功的记忆却永存。因此，从历史上看，商人的观念逐渐形成，他们是利润创造者，而不是经常亏损的人。埃比尼泽·汉考克失败了，在题为“殖民地破产：埃比尼泽·汉考克，1741-1819”的短文中，对他失败的原因有一些深入的了解。这篇文章是哈佛大学工商管理研究生院为撰写《哈佛商业史研究》中的一卷《汉考克家族》（House of Hancock）所做研究的副产品。本文作者在伦敦政治经济学院担任会计学教授。商业历史学会今年再次举办了
Professor Current in the article, "Technology and Promotion: The Typewriter," presents a striking example of the contributions of businessmen and firms in technological development. He is about to publish a combined biography of the "Father of the Typewriter" and the early business promoters of the writing machine. Professor Current is a member of the Department of History at the University of Illinois. Thorstein Veblen in his Engineers and the Price System, published in 1921, overlooked an important reality in economic growth, that the engineer and the businessman are both necessary to that development. In his second article on "The Early Business History of Four Massachusetts Railroads," Professor Kennedy deals especially with construction, and he shows how vital was the work of the businessmen in that early phase of railroad development. Squire Rantoul and His Drug Store, of the article by Robert W. Lovett in the present issue of the BULLETIN, were the founders of a family and a fortune which have played not inconsiderable roles in American business. A son of the Squire was an important figure in the beginnings of the Illinois Central Railroad and in the development of its land policy which became a pattern for many other roads to follow. Descendants of Squire Rantoul are active in several fields of business today. It is one of the ironies of business history that information about failures in business disappears but the memory of success lives on. So grows the conception of the businessman, historically, as the profitmaker rather than as one who often loses. Ebenezer Hancock failed, and in the short article entitled, "A Colonial Bankrupt: Ebenezer Hancock, 1741-1819," some insight is given into the reasons for his failure. The article is a by-product of research carried on at the Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, in preparation for the writing of the House of Hancock, a volume in the Harvard Studies in Business History. The author occupies a chair of accounting at the London School of Economics. The Business Historical Society has offered again this year its