A 1930s North American Creative Community: The Harvard "Pareto Circle"

Academic seminars are a rather recent invention. Among the seminars that flourished at Harvard during the late 1920s and early 1930s, one played a major role in creating what Margaret Gilbert (1989, 2000) calls a "joint commitment" of its members. Organized by Lawrence J. Henderson, it was...

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Published in:History of political economy 2011-04, Vol.43 (1), p.131-159
Main Author: Cot, Annie L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
20th century
Anthropologists
Anthropology
Belief & doubt
Beliefs
Criticism
Economic history
Economics
Economics and Finance
General economic equilibrium
History
History of the social sciences
History, Philosophy and Sociology of Sciences
Humanities and Social Sciences
Labor Relations
Labour relations
Management
Methodology
Psychologists
Seminars
Social Sciences
Sociologists
Sociology
U.S.A
Universities
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Summary:Academic seminars are a rather recent invention. Among the seminars that flourished at Harvard during the late 1920s and early 1930s, one played a major role in creating what Margaret Gilbert (1989, 2000) calls a "joint commitment" of its members. Organized by Lawrence J. Henderson, it was centered on Vilfredo Pareto's Trattato di sociologia generale, first published in 1916. Within this circle, economists, sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and specialists in industrial relations elaborated collectively both a new set of scientific beliefs and a new methodology for each of their own disciplines. The seminar seems to follow the three basic rules of the French grand siecle theater: one place, one time, one action.
ISSN:0018-2702
1527-1919
DOI:10.1215/00182702-2010-046