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Douglas McGregor

1906 - 1964

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Douglas Murray McGregor (September 6, 1906 – October 1, 1964) was an American management professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and president of Antioch College from 1948 to 1954. He also taught at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. His 1960 book The Human Side of Enterprise had a profound influence on education practices. McGregor was a student of Abraham Maslow. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Douglas McGregor is the 123rd most popular economist (down from 104th in 2019), the 1,827th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,418th in 2019) and the 39th most popular American Economist.

Douglas Mcgregor is most famous for his theory of the "Invisible Hand" in which he argues that the self-interest of the individual will lead to the best outcome for society.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Douglas McGregor ranks 123 out of 414. Before him are Franz Oppenheimer, Alfred Weber, Lorenz von Stein, Knut Wicksell, Thomas J. Sargent, and James Mirrlees. After him are Hermann Heinrich Gossen, Jean Tirole, James Mill, Oskar Morgenstern, Gottfried Feder, and Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Douglas McGregor ranks 75. Before him are Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark, Anthony Mann, Horst Schumann, George Wald, Hans Aumeier, and Yasuo Haruyama. After him are James E. Webb, Nelson Goodman, Gusztáv Sebes, Zhou Youguang, Fredric Brown, and Brigitte Helm. Among people deceased in 1964, Douglas McGregor ranks 40. Before him are Alan Ladd, Tatyana Afanasyeva, Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Maurice Thorez, Pedro Petrone, and Sam Cooke. After him are Adib Shishakli, Princess Auguste of Bavaria, Peter Lorre, Heinrich Neuhaus, Cole Porter, and J. B. S. Haldane.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Douglas McGregor ranks 1,827 out of 20,380. Before him are Clara Bow (1905), Cliff Robertson (1923), Richard Serra (1939), Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903), Kevin McHale (1957), and Jim Lovell (1928). After him are Dorothy Vaughan (1910), Minoru Yamasaki (1912), Teri Hatcher (1964), Larry Flynt (1942), Henry Rollins (1961), and Nick Adams (1931).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Douglas McGregor ranks 39. Before him are W. Edwards Deming (1900), George Akerlof (1940), Richard Thaler (1945), Merton Miller (1923), Thomas Schelling (1921), and Thomas J. Sargent (1943). After him are Michael Spence (1943), Eugene Fama (1939), Jeremy Rifkin (1945), William Nordhaus (1941), James Heckman (1944), and Alan Greenspan (1926).

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