Sanford M. Jacoby (born 1953) is an American

economic historian Economic history is the academic learning of economies or economic events of the past. Research is conducted using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and the application of economic theory to historical situations and ins ...

and labor economist, and Distinguished Research Professor of Management, History, and Public Policy at

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California S ...

. He is known for his studies of the transformation of work in American industry,

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, Japanese management, and

welfare capitalism Welfare capitalism is capitalism that includes social welfare policies and/or the practice of businesses providing welfare services to their employees. Welfare capitalism in this second sense, or industrial paternalism, was centered on industrie ...

Biography

Born and raised in Washington Heights in New York City, Jacoby received his AB in Economics, magna cum laude, in 1974 from the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

and his PhD in Economics in 1981 from

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

.Sanford M. Jacoby
at anderson.ucla.edu. Accessed 22.11.2014. Jacoby began his academic career at the

UCLA Anderson School of Management The John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management, also known as the UCLA Anderson School of Management, is the graduate business school at the University of California, Los Angeles, one of eleven professional schools. The school offers MBA (ful ...

in 1980
University Bulletin: A Weekly Bulletin for the Staff of the University of California
'' Volume 31. Office of Official Publications, University of California, 1982. p. 36 and was appointed Howard Noble Distinguished Professor in 2001.UCLA Anderson School Professor Appointed to Endowed Chair
by Kimberly Lisella, May 15, 2001. Accessed 22.11.2014. He was a founding faculty member of UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs and holds a position in UCLA's Department of History. Jacoby has been a visiting professor at the

Doshisha University , mottoeng = Truth shall make you free , tagline = , established = Founded 1875,Chartered 1920 , vision = , type = Private , affiliation = , calendar = , endowment = €1 ...

London School of Economics The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a public university, public research university located in London, England and a constituent college of the federal University of London. Founded in 1895 by Fabian Society members Sidn ...

, Cardiff University,

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univ ...

University of Tokyo , abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project b ...

, and

Waseda University , mottoeng = Independence of scholarship , established = 21 October 1882 , type = Private , endowment = , president = Aiji Tanaka , city = Shinjuku , state = Tokyo , country = Japan , students = 47,959 , undergrad = 39,382 , postgrad ...

. His research interests include the history of employers, unions, and labor market institutions, and the political economy of corporate governance. He is co-editor of the ''Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal''. Jacoby has received a series of recognitions for his work, starting in 1982 with the Allan Nevins Prize from the Economic History Association. In 1986 he received the George R. Terry Book Award of the Academy of Management, and in 1997 the Philip Taft Prize in Labor History. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Social Insurance, an Abe Fellow of the Japan Foundation and Social Science Research Council, and a Research Fellow of the Labor & Employment Relations Association. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.

Selected publications

* ''Employing Bureaucracy: Managers, Unions, and the Transformation of Work in American Industry, 1900-1945.'' New York: Columbia University Press, 1985; revised edition 2004. Japanese translation. * ''Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism since the New Deal.'' Princeton University Press, 1997. Japanese translation. * ''The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States.'' Princeton University Press, 2005. Chinese and Japanese translations. * ''Labor in the Age of Finance: Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank.'' Princeton University Press, 2021.

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Sanford M. Jacoby
Distinguished Research Professor of Management and Organizations at UCLA Anderson {{DEFAULTSORT:Jacoby, Sanford M. 1953 births Living people American business theorists 21st-century American economists University of Pennsylvania alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni University of California, Los Angeles faculty