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N. S. B. Gras
Born
Norman Scott Brien Gras

1884
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
DiedOctober 9, 1956(1956-10-09) (aged 71–72)
NationalityCanadian
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisThe Evolution of the English Corn Market, 1100–1700 (1912)
Doctoral advisor Edwin F. Gay
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-discipline Business history
Institutions
Notable ideas Business history

Norman Scott Brien Gras (1884–1956), known as N. S. B. Gras, was a Canadian professor at the Harvard Business School who invented the academic discipline of business history.

Early life

Gras was born in 1884 in Toronto, Ontario. [1] He graduated from the University of Western Ontario. [1] He went on to receive a PhD in economics from Harvard University. [1]

Career

Gras taught economics at the University of Minnesota. [2]

Gras was appointed as Professor of Business History by Dean Wallace Brett Donham in 1927. [2] [3] He invented this new academic discipline, which only existed as his job title at the time. [2] From the outset, Gras made sure to draw a distinction between economic history and business history. [3] For Gras, economic history failed to focus on the role of the businessman as well as the role of business administration. [3] Instead, the main goal of business history was to highlight those two components in the history of corporations and business developments. [3]

Gras served as the president of the Business History Foundation. [4] He was the founder and editor of the Journal of Economic and Business History. [4] He was also the editor of the Harvard Studies of Business History. [4]

Works

  • Gras, N. S. B. (1918). The Early English Customs System: A Documentary Study of the Institutional and Economic History of the Customs from the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Century. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. OCLC  3077330.
  • Gras, N. S. B. (1922). An Introduction to Economic History. New York: Harper & Bros. OCLC  4625645.
  • Gras, N. S. B. (1925). A History of Agriculture in Europe and America. New York: F.S. Crofts & Co. OCLC  2138695.
  • Gras, N. S. B. (1930). Industrial Evolution. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. OCLC  1187223.
  • Gras, N. S. B.; Pforzheimer, Carl H. (1937). The Massachusetts First National Bank of Boston, 1784-1934. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. OCLC  2490681.
  • Gras, N. S. B.; Larson, Henrietta M. (1939). Casebook in American History. New York: F.S. Crofts & Co. OCLC  4139275.
  • Gras, N. S. B. (1939). Business and Capitalism: An Introduction to Business History. New York: F.S. Crofts & Co. OCLC  2167414.

References

  1. ^ a b c "Gras, N. S. B." Encyclopedia.com. International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. 1968. Retrieved January 16, 2016.
  2. ^ a b c "Norman Scott Brien Gras, 1884-1956". The Business History Review. 30 (4): 357–360. December 1956. doi: 10.2307/3111713. JSTOR  3111713.
  3. ^ a b c d Wohl, R. Richard (June 1954). "The Significance of Business History". The Business History Review. 28 (2): 128–140. doi: 10.2307/3111488. JSTOR  3111488. S2CID  154201512.
  4. ^ a b c Postan, M. M. (1957). "N. S. B. Gras--A Memoir". The Economic History Review. 9 (3): 485. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.1957.tb00679.x. JSTOR  2591139.


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