Edith Penrose

Economist, Author

1914 – 1996

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Who was Edith Penrose?

Edith Elura Tilton Penrose was an American-born British economist whose best known work is The Theory of the Growth of the Firm, which describes the ways which firms grow and how fast they do. Writing in The Independent the economist Sir Alec Cairncross, stated that the book brought Dr. Penrose "instant recognition as a creative thinker, and its importance to the analysis of the job of management has been increasingly realized".

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Born
Nov 15, 1914
Los Angeles
Nationality
  • United Kingdom
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Johns Hopkins University
Died
Oct 11, 1996
Waterbeach

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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