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Dear all, 

Tiago Mata (Cambridge) will speak on Wednesday, 29 October at the HPPE seminar of LSE's Economic History Department. The title of his paper is: "The Managerial Ideal and Business Magazines in the Great Depression".

The seminar takes place from 1-2:30pm, in room CLM 2.04 and is open to all with an interest in the history of economics.

Best wishes, 

Tobias Vogelgsang

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About Tiago: 
Tiago is a Senior Research Associate at Cambridge's Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Principal Investigator of the European Research Council Project (2012–2016), 'Economics in the Public Sphere: USA, UK, France, Argentina and Brazil since 1945'. He holds a doctoral degree from the Department of Economic History at the London School of Economics, and has taught at the University of Amsterdam and Duke University. He has written on science communication, academic freedom, the economics of science, the history of macroeconomics, and the role of politics in social knowledge.

Tiago's abstract:
The 1930s transformed American capitalism. Alongside a novel partnership between state and business developed a new business culture attentive to knowledge and information about the economy. This essay interrogates the political economy of two business magazines created at the start of the Great Depression. I argue that Business Week and Fortune’s signature approaches to reporting articulated an ideal conception of the manager. The early century conception saw the manager preoccupied with efficiency and the control of operations within the firm. The new ideal viewed the manager as an expert coordinating firms with their external environment, notably an interventionist and scrutinizing state, volatile markets, and a critical public opinion.

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