Talk:Edith Penrose

What is needed next
Do not delete this page! A page on Edith Penrose has been needed for a while now. There are at least four pages that link here. A stub was deleted three times, but this one is properly referenced. Penrose is a highly influential economist whose influence has grown after her death. What is needed next includes: 1. A proper description of her major work "The Theory of the Growth of the Firm" 2. Her work on the oil industry and Iraq 3. Her influences on later economists. Lubumbashi (talk) 12:34, 22 May 2008 (UTC) The biography is not clear about her doctorate. It says she went to Baltimore to do both MA and PhD, which would appear to be sometime between 1938 and 1945, by the sequence of sentences, but then says she was awarded her doctorate in 1950. More clarity is needed - did she leave Johns Hopkins before completing her PhD? Or is the sequence of sentences misleading? At the moment the section in question is as follows (my bold type for illustration):

In 1936 she married David Burton Denhardt, who died two years later in a hunting accident, leaving her with an infant son. She moved to Baltimore, and took her MA and PhD under the supervision of Fritz Machlup at Johns Hopkins University. In 1945 she married Ernest F. Penrose, a British-born economist and writer who had been one of her teachers at Berkeley. After working for the American Embassy in London, she received her doctorate in 1950.[2] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.75.1.76 (talk) 12:52, 15 June 2015 (UTC)