Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist
by Alex Zevin · 12 Nov 2019 · 767pp · 208,933 words
old trollop’.170 The choice of Scottish aristocrat Sir Alec Douglas-Home to succeed Macmillan did little to reverse the Conservatives’ slide. Finally, that year Norman Macrae, the paper’s economics editor, published Sunshades in October, an indictment of ‘stop-go economics’ under the Tories that joined a growing body of statistical
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Burnet has been produced for the most part by pure products of the Cold War, without any adult experience of what preceded it. (Deputy editor Norman Macrae was the main exception, chronologically, but with childhood memories of 1930s Moscow that served as a premonition of the same mindset.) More than any single
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Brian Beedham, Robert Moss and Vietnam The moonlighting of a celebrity editor gave a great deal more freedom to his two deputies – Brian Beedham and Norman Macrae – each equally influential in their domains, both convinced liberal capitalism must fight communism to some final reckoning. How did the Economist represent the battlefields of
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graphic detail as his quest to expose media outlets and think tanks as thinly disguised KGB fronts.40 Macrae-economics: Considering Japan and West Germany Norman Macrae was the mirror image of Beedham and Moss, complementing their geopolitical engagements with his own take on global capitalism.41 His manner was quite different
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Middle East peace initiative.88 Late to Neoliberalism? Since the 1960s, the Economist had played a key role in debates over British economic decline via Norman Macrae, who set relatively disappointing figures for output, productivity and growth in a global and comparative context. But his treks abroad aimed to find solutions to
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with vested interests’ in 1986.13 Emmott found the doors of Japan Inc. wide open to him as a correspondent for the Economist, whose profile Norman Macrae had raised among the country’s ministerial and commercial elites. The famed Economist deputy editor was therefore an essential reference for Emmott, present in his
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Angeles. During and after his sojourn in America, much of the intellectual thrust came from his colleague and writing partner, Adrian Wooldridge, described as a ‘Norman Macrae-like figure – clever, if rather kooky’. ‘When I first arrived he terrified me, because he seemed so posh, always dressed in very stripy Jermyn Street
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: The Life and Times of Siegmund Warburg, New York 2010, pp. 216–18, 259. 116.‘Barbara Ward’, 6 June 1981. 117.‘Tyerman, Donald (1908–1981)’, Norman Macrae in ODNB; Hugh Brogan, interviewed by the author, November 2011; Barbara Smith, ‘Not So Hard Labour’, Economist, 20 December 2003. 118.Charles Jones, ‘“An Active
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, ‘economically profitable to inflate marginal demand up to a distinctly higher point than it used to be’. Norman Macrae, Sunshades in October, London 1963, pp. 17, 25. 173.Ibid., p. 28. 174.‘Tyerman, Donald (1908–1981)’, Norman Macrae in ODNB. In governing, Labour might also abandon antiquated ideas about planning and nationalization: ‘The Domestic
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.’ ‘No Christ on the Andes’, 25 September 1965. 42.‘The Unacknowledged Giant’, 17 June 2010. 43.‘The Next Ages of Man’, 24 December 1988. 44.Norman Macrae, The London Capital Market, Its Structure, Strains, and Management, London 1955; Macrae, To Let?: A Study of the Expedient Pledge on Rents Included in the
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Beedham, ‘As the Tanks Rumble Away’, 1 September 1990. 141.Brian Beedham, ‘A Better Way to Vote’, 11 September 1993. 142.Norman Macrae, ‘The Next Ages of Man’, 24 December 1988. 143.Norman Macrae, ‘Future Privatisations’, 21 December 1991. 144.Ibid., p. 19. 145.‘Future Privatisations’, 21 December 1991. 146.‘Mrs Thatcher’s Place
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, 208, 230 Macdonell, P. J., 142 MacIntyre, Alasdair, 390 Macleod, Iain, 261 Macmillan, Harold, 72, 195, 196, 198, 229, 244, 263, 265, 266, 270, 271 Macrae, Norman, 271, 272, 277, 280, 289–93, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 308, 309, 310, 311, 319, 325, 328, 329, 330, 336, 337 Macron, Emmanuel, 378
The Man Who Invented the Computer
by Jane Smiley · 18 Oct 2010 · 253pp · 80,074 words
Neumann had grown up in a period and in a place remarkable for prosperity, education, talent, and exposure to a world of ideas and sophistication. Norman Macrae, von Neumann’s biographer, relates that in the late nineteenth century, enterprising Jews from all over Russia and eastern Europe flocked to Budapest, where changes
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’s slightly older compatriot, preferred an intimidating demonstration of the weapon, but von Neumann was willing to make a list of good targets—according to Norman Macrae, he was instrumental in steering the air force away from the Imperial Palace, but, according to Kati Marton, he thought the Japanese holy city of
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month later, in August, von Neumann visited ENIAC in Philadelphia for the first time. Von Neumann may have been a famous genius, but according to Norman Macrae, Pres Eckert, then twenty-five, viewed von Neumann’s visit as a test—for von Neumann. Eckert said to Goldstine that he would find out
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West had to stay ahead of the Soviet Union, remarking that “with the Russians, it is not a question of whether, but when.” According to Norman Macrae, he felt that “all those sitting around the Soviet decision-making tables should know that in the first few minutes of a nuclear war, a
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wooed both the army and the navy—to the navy, he promised analysis of explosions in water, weather prediction, and even weather control. According to Norman Macrae, von Neumann did not hesitate to threaten the navy with the idea of Josef Stalin using computer-driven weather control to launch a new ice
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underlying EDVAC, Goldstine established them as prior art to any claims that Mauchly and Eckert might make to the same ideas (von Neumann’s biographer, Norman Macrae, sees this as von Neumann’s intentional attempt to preempt the patenting of the ideas underlying the computer). If Atanasoff’s thirty-five-page description
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ways, may be Tommy Flowers, who remains largely unsung. But perhaps our most problematic character is John von Neumann. Scott McCartney considers him a thief, Norman Macrae and Kati Marton consider him a visionary. Everyone considers him a genius. As for me, von Neumann is the man whose memoirs I would have
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& Schuster, 1983. Leavitt, David. The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2006. Macrae, Norman. John von Neumann: The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, and Much More, 2nd ed. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society
The Man From the Future: The Visionary Life of John Von Neumann
by Ananyo Bhattacharya · 6 Oct 2021 · 476pp · 121,460 words
predicted that ‘There was going to be an advance in computing machines that would have to work partly as the brain did,’ according to journalist Norman Macrae, and ‘such machines would become attached to all large systems such as telecommunication systems, electricity grids and big factories’. The Internet was conceived many times
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Where Computers Meet Biology, Vintage, New York. Lukacs, John, 1998, Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture, Grove Press, New York. Macrae, Norman, 1992, John von Neumann: The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence and Much More, Pantheon Books, New York. McDonald, John
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. 55. Accounts differ on this. Wigner says the von Neumanns arrived a day after him. Von Neumann’s biographer claims they arrived a week later (Norman Macrae, 1992, John von Neumann: The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence and Much More, Pantheon Books, New York). 56. David
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, 226, 226–7, 228, 246, 273, 276 McDonald, John 174–5 McEwan, Ian 36 machine learning 257 McKinsey, J. C. C. 214 McNamara, Robert 222 Macrae, Norman 103 Manchester, University of 138, 142, 269 Mandelbrot, Benoît 277–8, 282 Manhattan Project xii–xiii, 80–96, 85 assembly of the first implosion device
Influence: Science and Practice
by Robert B. Cialdini · 1 Jan 1984 · 405pp · 121,531 words
. Extensive cable and satellite systems provide one route for that information into the average home. The other major route is the personal computer. In 1972, Norman Macrae, an editor of The Economist, speculated prophetically about a time in the future: The prospect is, after all, that we are going to enter an
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Low-ball technique, 84–85 research on, 85–86 socially beneficial uses of, 86–88 Luncheon technique, 164–165 Lussen, Frederick, 110 MacKenzie, Bob, 220 Macrae, Norman, 230, 231 Magruder, Jeb Stuart, 41, 42 Mars, Franklin, 163 Mauss, Marcel, 31 McGovern, George, 41 Medical profession and blind obedience, 181–182 reciprocity in
Complexity: A Guided Tour
by Melanie Mitchell · 31 Mar 2009 · 524pp · 120,182 words
Kemeny, and Peter Lax. Many people have speculated on the causes of this improbable cluster of incredible talent. But as related by von Neumann biographer Norman MacRae, “Five of Hungary’s six Nobel Prize winners were Jews born between 1875 and 1905, and one was asked why Hungary in his generation had
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, 256–257 Lorenz, Edward, 22 Lovelock, James, 113 Lyell, Charles, 76–78 lymphocytes, 8–9, 172–176, 180–183. See also B cells; T cells MacRae, Norman, 125 macrophage, 9 macrostate, 49–51, 54, 101, 307 Macy foundation meetings, 295–297 majority classification task, 160–161 cellular automaton evolved for, 162–164
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
by Daniel Yergin · 14 May 2011 · 1,373pp · 300,577 words
. 5 (Kennedy); Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray, Computer: A History of the Information Machine (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2004), p. 79 (“considerable temerity”). 26 Norman Macrae, John von Neumann: The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, and Much More (American Mathematical Society, 2008), pp. 5, 248
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. March 2009. McLean, Bethany, and Peter Elkind. The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron. New York: Portfolio, 2004. Macrae, Norman. John von Neumann: The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence and Much More. American Mathematical Society, 2008. Makovich, Lawrence. “Beyond
Winds of Change
by Peter Hennessy · 27 Aug 2019 · 891pp · 220,950 words
the Whitehall of the Keynes-reading Harold Macmillan. Their hour would not come for another quarter of a century. Journalists sympathetic to them, such as Norman Macrae on The Economist (inventor of ‘Mr Butskell’ in Butler–Gaitskell days, and soon to coin the concept of ‘stagflation’30), fared no better. In his
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.), A Conversation with Harris and Seldon (Institute of Economic Affairs, 2001), p. 25. 29. Ibid. 30. Hennessy, Having It So Good, pp. 210–11. 31. Norman Macrae, Sunshades in October: An Analysis of the Main Mistakes in British Economic Policy Since the Mid Nineteen Fifties (Allen & Unwin, 1963), p. 15. 32. Fernand
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’ speech (1960) 119, 180, 183, 188, 191, 202–3 Macmillan, Maurice 384, 395, 398 McNamara, Robert 251, 263–4, 266, 276, 305–7, 312–13 Macrae, Norman 24–5 ‘magic circle’ 432–5 ‘Magnox’ stations 355 Major, John 435 Making of the Prime Minister, The (Howard/West) 486 Mallaby, George 359 Mallard
Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America
by Erik Baker · 13 Jan 2025 · 362pp · 132,186 words
soon began to circulate widely in avant-garde business circles. (Gifford was typically listed as the sole author.) Their big break came in 1982, when Norman Macrae, business editor at The Economist, published a piece titled “Intrapreneurial Now,” which credited the term to “Mr. Gifford Pinchot III of Mr. Bob Schwartz’s
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. The percentage of large firms using some self-managed teams increased from 28 percent at the start of the 1980s to 68 percent by 1993. Norman Macrae saw the adhocratic model as the ideal structure for the intrapreneurial organization, although he urged that teams be kept “very small, probably not more than
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man that they could have done a better job designing their own work and the assembly line than the General Motors industrial engineers did.” Similarly, Norman Macrae’s Economist article on intrapreneurship complained that in most factories there could be found “no direct incentives for ordinary workers to speed or improve production
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of Entrepreneurs),” white paper, Tarrytown School of Entrepreneurs, Fall 1978. 8Norman Macrae, “The Coming Entrepreneurial Revolution,” The Economist, December 25, 1976: 41–65, at 41; Norman Macrae, “Intrapreneurial Now,” The Economist, April 17, 1982, 47–52, at 47. 9Macrae, “Intrapreneurial Now,” 48. 10John S. Demott, “Here Come the Intrapreneurs,” Time, February 4
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lifestyle commodification, 15; and management, 130, 138, 189; minority, 130; and modernization, 119; New Age, 157–58; and New Economy, 235; New Right, 163; and Norman Macrae, 191; and odd jobs, 78; pandemic, 251; and Paul Hawken, 155–56; and Peter Drucker, 137, 139, 144–45, 163, 188, 235; philanthropic, 227; promotion
Masters of Management: How the Business Gurus and Their Ideas Have Changed the World—for Better and for Worse
by Adrian Wooldridge · 29 Nov 2011 · 460pp · 131,579 words
disheveled pomp when today’s journo-gurus were holding forth in their playpens. He also worked for a publication that cherishes its tradition of anonymity. Norman Macrae was a stalwart of The Economist for half a century: he joined the paper in 1946 and worked as deputy editor for twenty-three years
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California Public Employees Retirement System Camden Property Trust, 163 Cameron, David, 329, 331 Capgemini, 52, 173 Capitalism, 41–42, 170, 292–298, 349. See also Macrae, Norman; Sloanism managerial, 337–339 model of, 32 shareholder, 292 Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (Schumpeter), 170, 245 Capital One, 377 Carnegie, Andrew, 174 Carruba, Frank, 258
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Times, 76, 396 Lublin, Nancy, 48 M&A. See Mergers and acquisitions Ma, Jack, 185 MacArthur, Douglas, General, 4 Machiavelli, Niccoló, 146 Mackey, John, 262 Macrae, Norman, 169–171. See also Capitalism Macrowikinomics, 67 Macrowikinomics (Tapscott and Williams), 326–327 Madigan, Charles, xiii Mahindra, Anand, 230 Mahindra & Mahindra, 229 Make a Wish
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Leavitt, Top Down (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2005), p. 49. CHAPTER 7: ENTREPRENEURS UNBOUND 1. This can be found at www.normanmacrae.com, “The Norman Macrae Archive.” 2. Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger (New York: Free Press, 2008), p. 4. 3. William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan, and Carl J. Schramm
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
by Neil Sheehan · 21 Sep 2009 · 589pp · 197,971 words
Goldstine’s 1972 The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann; Stanislaw Ulam’s 1976 Adventures of a Mathematician; William Poundstone’s 1992 Prisoner’s Dilemma; Norman Macrae’s 1992 John von Neumann; and Kati Marton’s 2006 The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World. Chapter 32: Interviews
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Deter: The Legacy of the United States Cold War Missile Program. Washington, D.C.: Department of Defense Legacy Resource Management Program, Cold War Project, 1996. Macrae, Norman. John von Neumann. New York: Pantheon, 1992. Makhijani, Arjun, Howard Hu, Katherine Yih Nuclear Wastelands. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995. Manchester, William. American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
by Peter L. Bernstein · 23 Aug 1996 · 415pp · 125,089 words
Turing's Cathedral
by George Dyson · 6 Mar 2012
The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State
by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge · 14 May 2014 · 372pp · 92,477 words
The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State
by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg · 3 Feb 1997 · 582pp · 160,693 words
The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities
by Mancur Olson
The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Finally Solving the Mystery of Life
by Paul Davies · 31 Jan 2019 · 253pp · 83,473 words
When Einstein Walked With Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought
by Jim Holt · 14 May 2018 · 436pp · 127,642 words
The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
by Walter Isaacson · 6 Oct 2014 · 720pp · 197,129 words
Singularity Rising: Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter, Richer, and More Dangerous World
by James D. Miller · 14 Jun 2012 · 377pp · 97,144 words
Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking
by Charles Seife · 27 Oct 2009 · 356pp · 95,647 words
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
by James Gleick · 1 Mar 2011 · 855pp · 178,507 words