Frederick Harris Harbison (December 18, 1912 – April 5, 1976) was an American labor economist and Professor of Labor Economics at

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. He was known for his 1959 study ''Management in the industrial world'' and other works on labor and management. Harbison was born in

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to Ralph and Helen Harbison. His father was a brick manufacturer. He obtained his AB in economics in 1934 from Princeton University, where in 1940 he obtained his PhD with a thesis on labor relations in the iron and steel industry. In

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Harbison served in the

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, at the War Labor Board, at the Petroleum Administration for War, and at the

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. In 1945 he started his academic career as Professor of Economics at the

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. In 1955 he moved to

, where he was Professor of Economics and International Affairs until 1976. He also served as a Member of the

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Task Force on Education, Science, and Culture in the

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administration in 1962. he was elected to the

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in 1969.

Selected publications

* Harbison, Frederick Harris, and

Charles Andrew Myers Charles Andrew Myers (Sept. 10, 1913 - April 2, 2000Professor Myers of Sloa ...

. ''Management in the industrial world: An international analysis.'' New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1959. * Kerr, Clark, John T. Dunlop, and Frederick H. Harbison. ''Industrialism and industrial man: The problems of labor and management in economic growth.'' Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960. * Harbison, Frederick Harris, and

Charles Andrew Myers Charles Andrew Myers (Sept. 10, 1913 - April 2, 2000Professor Myers of Sloa ...

. ''Education, manpower, and economic growth: Strategies of human resource development''. Tata McGraw-Hill Education, 1964. * Harbison, Frederick Harris. ''Human resources as the wealth of nations. Vol. 3.'' New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. Articles, a selection * Kerr, C., Harbison, F. H., Dunlop, J. T., & Myers, C. A. (1960). "Industrialism and industrial man." ''Int'l Lab. Rev.,'' 82, 236. * Harbison, Frederick, and Charles A. Myers. "Management in the industrial world." ''The International Executive'' 2.1 (1960): 9–10.'

References

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