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2 unusual facts about Karl E. Case


Karl E. Case

Principles of Economics, a basic economics text co-authored with Ray C. Fair and Sharon Oster, first published in 1989, is in its ninth edition and is used at more than 500 colleges and universities.

Karl Case is Professor of Economics Emeritus at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States, where he held the Coman and Hepburn Chair in Economics and taught for 34 years.


Case–Church Amendment

It is named for its principal co-sponsors, Senators Clifford P. Case (R-NJ) and Frank Church (D-ID).

Case–Shiller index

The indices are calculated from data on repeat sales of single-family homes, an approach developed by economists Karl Case, Robert Shiller and Allan Weiss who served as the CEO from the company's inception to the Fiserv sale.

CIA activities in Cambodia

Senator Clifford P. Case sponsors a law effective December 1972 cutting off funds for CIA and private military company operations in Cambodia.

Coudert Brothers

One reason for the decline of Coudert Brothers was the rise of other competitive multinational law firms in the 1990s and 2000s, such as Clifford Chance, White & Case and Baker & McKenzie.

David Brown Ltd.

In 1972 the company sold the tractor operations to Tenneco Inc. of America, who owned the J.I. Case tractor company.

David G. Johnson

Prior to MGM, he was a partner of the international law firm White & Case.

Eugene Octave Sykes

Seated (l-r) Eugene Octave Sykes, Frank R. McNinch, Chairman Paul Atlee Walker, Standing (l-r) T.A.M. Craven, Thad H. Brown, Norman S. Case, and George Henry Payne.

Fred J. Cook

Cook's 1964 book, Goldwater: Extremist on the Right, initiated a series of events which in the end led to the Supreme Court decision in what is known as the Red Lion case: After the book appeared, Cook was attacked by conservative evangelist Billy James Hargis on his daily Christian Crusade radio broadcast, on WGCB in Red Lion, Pennsylvania.

J. I. Case

Jerome I. Case High School — a Wisconsin high school also known as "J.I. Case" or "Racine Case"

Jerome Case (1819–1891) — Jerome Increase Case, farm machinery maker and racehorse owner; founder of J. I. Case Company

Case Corporation — the tractor manufacturer formerly known as the J. I. Case Company

Karl E. Brinkmann GmbH

Karl E. Brinkmann GmbH (also known as KEB) is a family-owned business from Barntrup, Germany.

Karl E. Mundt

In 1936, Mundt was the Republican candidate for the House of Representatives in South Dakota's 1st congressional district, losing in a Democratic year to Fred H. Hildebrandt.

His accomplishments as a Senator included obtaining support for Missouri River projects, establishment of the EROS Data Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, agriculture programs, and Interstate highway construction in South Dakota.

Karl E. Mundt National Wildlife Refuge

In an effort to purchase private land and help to protect habitat for the Bald Eagle, 7-Eleven Food Stores and the National Wildlife Federation worked out a deal in which proceeds from the sale of endangered species drinking cups sold at 7-Eleven stores, was donated to the National Wildlife Federation.

Karl E. Peters

His thesis compliments the thinking of theologians such as John B. Cobb, Arthur Peacocke, and Ted Peters and American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce.

Karl E. Weick

A loose coupling is what makes it possible for these ontologically incompatible entities to exist and act on each other, without shattering (akin to Castoriadis's idea of 'articulation').

Libya lobby in the United States

The Libyan government has engaged a number of American firms who have disclosed their work under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, including White & Case, Blank Rome, The Livingston Group, and Monitor Group.

Maurice L. Ayers

In 1872 he was part of a group of men, including J. I. Case, who founded the Bank of Burlington (which would eventually be acquired by Marshall & Ilsley Bank.

Organizational information theory

Karl E. Weick, "The Nontraditional Quality of Organizational Learning," Organization Science 2 (1991): 116-124.

Paul Atlee Walker

Seated (l-r) Eugene Octave Sykes, Frank R. McNinch, Chairman Paul Atlee Walker, Standing (l-r) T.A.M. Craven, Thad H. Brown, Norman S. Case, and George Henry Payne.

Percy Sykes

Meyer, Karl E. and Shareen Blair Brysac, Kingmakers: the Invention of the Modern Middle East, W.W. Norton, 2008.

Robert J. Shiller

In 1991 he formed Case Shiller Weiss with economists Karl Case and Allan Weiss who served as the CEO from inception to the sale to Fiserv.

Steam tractor

Certain steam tractors were better suited for ploughing than others, with the large Minneapolis Threshing machine Co., J.I. Case, Reeves & Co and Advance-Rumely engines being prime examples.

Thorngate's postulate of commensurate complexity

Karl E. Weick maintains that research in the field of social psychology can – at any one time – achieve only two of the three meta-theoretical virtues of "Generality", "Accuracy" and "Simplicity."


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