NICOLE ORESME
Mathematics is not enough:
there must also be financial management
LUCA PACIOLI
Double entry book keeping:
balance the outgoings before the income
ADAM SMITH
Economist, organizational development, specialization and division of labour: divide tasks up correctly, and they are done more quickly, and more enjoyably
ELI WHITNEY
Removes seeds from cotton interchangeable parts; cost accounting; American system of manufacturing; assembly line: turn the boring, tedious jobs into set routine machine tasks
JAMES WATTS
Standard operating procedures
cost accounting
originator of the concept of horsepower
Jean Baptiste Say
Laissez-faire
Bought together factors of production, begins analysis of what makes an Entrepreneur
VILFREDO PARETO
Italian economist
80/20 theory: that 80% of money is owned by 20% of the people; now also applied to tasks, and clients: 20% of the clients bring in 80% of the income, and 80% 0f time should go to 20% of the clients
WALTER RATHENAU
German Economist, assassinated 1922
“The New Economy” advocates that employees should take a greater role in the management
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
Economist, logical-relationist school, Wicksellian theory (Interest rates & bank rates control cash flows), Employment theory
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER
Economist:
Business Cycle Theory;
identify how the business cycle works, the highs and the lows
E FRITZ SCHUMACHER
Small is beautiful
Argued that large organizations needed to support competition rather than eliminate it in order to be healthy
GEORGE BOX
Statistical guru
Time Series Analysis
Self-taught during WWII
Using imaginative solutions to statistics for business
JAY SCHUSTER
Pay and Reward specialist
Linking performance and benchmarking to pay and rewards
LESTER C THUROW
Economist: advocates wealth as a global goal