National Academic Advisory Board

Dr. Richard McKenzie is Walter B. Gerken Professor of Enterprise and Society in the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Irvine. He is also an Adjunct Fellow at the Center for the Study of American Business at Washington University in St. Louis.

Professor McKenzie has written more than twenty books and monographs, the most recent of which is The Paradox of Progress: Can Americans Regain Their Confidence in a Prosperous Future? (Oxford University, 1997). He has also recently published, The Home: A Memoir of Growing Up in an Orphanage (Basic Books, 1996), which recounts his upbringing in the Barium Springs Home for Children in Piedmont, North Carolina.

Dr. McKenzie's current research focuses on manager-worker relations, and claims that future generations will have to adopt lower living standards. This year he plans to complete two new books, Getting Incentives Right! (Oxford University Press) and Rethinking Orphanages, with Dr. Dwight Lee, another associate of the Institute.

We are proud Dr. McKenzie has joined our Advisory Board, and welcome the opportunity to rely on his expertise in the future.

Imprint, December 1997

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