Beyond economic man

By:

"Leibenstein, Harvey"

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge Mass; Harvard Univ. Press; 1976Description: 297pISBN:

674068912

Subject(s):

Microeconomics

DDC classification:

338.5 LEI

Summary: Several days after I presented a lecture on X-Efficiency at Cambridge University, a young English economist brought me a quotation from Tolstoy's War and Peace. The passage, abridged for convenience, is as follows: military science assumes the strength of an army to be identical with its numbers. Military science says that the more troops the greater the strength. Les gros battaillons ont toujours raison (Large battalions are always victorious) ... In military affairs the strength of an army is the product of its mass and some unknown x That unknown quantity is the spirit of the army,... The spirit of an army is the factor which multiplied by the mass gives the resulting force. To define and express the significance of this unknown factor-the spirit of an army-is a problem for science.

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Several days after I presented a lecture on X-Efficiency at Cambridge University, a young English economist brought me a quotation from Tolstoy's War and Peace. The passage, abridged for convenience, is as follows: military science assumes the strength of an army to be identical with its numbers. Military science says that the more troops the greater the strength. Les gros battaillons ont toujours raison (Large battalions are always victorious) ... In military affairs the strength of an army is the product of its mass and some unknown x That unknown quantity is the spirit of the army,... The spirit of an army is the factor which multiplied by the mass gives the resulting force. To define and express the significance of this unknown factor-the spirit of an army-is a problem for science.

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