This original analysis of the creation of new state forms critically examines the political forces that enabled `more and better management' to be presented as

In this trenchant challenge to social engineering, Paul Gottfried analyzes a patricide: the slaying of nineteenth-century liberalism by the managerial state. Ma

Written in 1941, Burnham's claim was that capitalism was dead, but that it was being replaced not by socialism, but a new economic system he called "manageriali

This book provides the first critical analysis of Chester Barnard's ideology - an ideology that is now fundamental to the orthodox beliefs of the modern manager

A seminal figure in the field of public management, Mark H. Moore presents his summation of fifteen years of research, observation, and teaching about what publ