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A Proposal for Schools of Business Administration in Seventeenth-Century England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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The history of business education is still to be written. It would make an interesting story, one that would deal not only with training for business but also with the condition and the problems of business through the centuries. Especially revealing would be the development of ideas and institutions concerned with training for administration. The importance of such training was recognized early; in the fourth century B. C., Xenophon in his Oeconomicus wrote about training for management, and a father in thirteenth-century Norway, as recorded in The King's Mirror, advised his son what he should learn in preparation for a career as a merchant.

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Business History Review , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , June 1941 , pp. 43 - 46
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1941

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References

1 A copy of the original edition of this work is in the Kress Library of Business and Economics, Baker Library, Harvard University.

2 The plan was first proposed in The British Mercantile Academy: or the Accomplished Merchant, of which Postlethwayt and James Royston were joint authors and which was published in London in 1750.

3 Postlethwayt, Malachy, The Merchants Public Counting House (London, 1751)Google Scholar.