Richard H. Lansburgh

[2][3] Lansburgh was born and raised in Washington, D.C., and studied economics at the University of Pennsylvania.

There in 1915 he obtained his Bsc in economics, and in 1916 his MA,[1] and in 1918 his PhD in Political Economy with a thesis entitled "Labor turnover.

"[4] In 1915 Lansburgh had started his life-long academic career at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, only interrupted by World War I.

The text is designed not to make any original contribution, but to create an overview of the field.

The author of Yardsticks of Management (1946) remembered Lansburgh for his outstanding opinion about those matters.