Penrose, Edith Tilton

LC control no.	n 50009505
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Penrose, Edith Tilton *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Denhardt, Edith Tilton
Associated country	Great Britain
Associated place	London (England) Fontainebleau (France)
Birth date	1914-11-15
Death date	1996-10-11
Place of birth	Los Angeles (Calif.)
Place of death	Waterbeach (England)
Field of activity	Economics
Affiliation	London School of Economics and Political Science University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies Insead
Profession or occupation	Economists College teachers
Found in	Her The effect of war on the relative importance ... Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1914) The theory of the growth of the firm, 1959 : t. p. (Edith Tilton Penrose) Wikipedia, viewed October 26, 2018 : Edith Penrose (born : November 15, 1914 in Los Angeles, California ; died : October 21, 1996 in Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, England ; an American-born British economist ; in 1936 married David Burton Denhardt who passed away 2 years later ; she received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University ; married Ernest F. Penrose in 1945 ; in 1959, she took a joint readership post in economics at the London School of Economics and School of Oriental and African Studies ; in 1964, was appointed chair of economics with special reference to Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies until leaving her post in 1978 ; at age 64, retired from SOAS and became a professor of political economy at INSEAD in France ; with the death of her husband in 1984, she retired from INSEAD and moved to Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire ; published works : "The economics of the international patent system", "The theory of the growth of the firm", "The growth of the firm : a case study", "The large international firm in developing countries", "New orientations" and "Iraq : international relations and national development") <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Penrose>
Associated language	eng