corticis, aliud medullT" becomes "one, of course, is that which forms the shell ('cortex'), the other the marrow ('medulla')" (p. 9). The names of other people and texts mentioned briefly by Wharton, and other details, are identified fully in endnotes. This is a careful and accessible edition. Wharton's book was of capital importance, building on some of the latest anatomical discoveries of his...

AUTHOR: Thomas Lee, [email protected] AFFILIATION: University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School Department of Operations and Information Management

My name is Sidney Winter. I am the Deloitte and Touche Professor of Management, Emeritus, at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where I spent 15 years in the Management Department. I am trained as an economist, and I previously was a tenured faculty member in two economics departments, those of Yale University (13 years) and the University of Michigan (8). One of my central r...