Introduction to the Theory of Constraints or A Guide to What S Wrong with Economics

Introduction to the Theory of Constraints

Author: Thomas B McMullen Jr

Introducing an important new expression of management science called the Theory of Constraints (TOC), this book helps busy executives and professionals quickly learn and implement TOC principles. Introduction to the Theory of Constraints (TOC) Management System organizes several proven TOC principles, processes, and solutions into a TOC management system that has been successfully applied to everything from manufacturing industries to health care. The Theory of Constraints is based on the scientific method that has been developed and refined for nearly three decades by Dr. Eli Goldratt. The TOC management system offers management techniques that are sound, practical, and can be applied to nearly every company, project, or personal endeavor imaginable. It has created fundamentally new ways of managing, and has dramatically improved the ability of hundreds of thousands of individuals to make smart decisions on a daily basis. If you've read Eli Goldratt's bestselling books and wondered how to put his ideas to work, Introduction to the Theory of Constraints (TOC) Management System tells what TOC is, where it came from, who uses it, and how to get started with it.

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McMullen worked with Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt (), father of the management science of TOC. With pithy quotes and figures, the author introduces TOC's development, its "physics of performance" logic trees, ubiquitous TOC applications, testimonials, resources, and how to get initiated. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

	List of Quotations
	List of Figures
	About APICS
	The Author
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: A Physics of Anything	1
1	What Is the Theory of Constraints?	15
2	Where Did TOC Come From?	113
3	Why Do People Say They Like TOC?	125
4	Who Has Used TOC?	147
5	Where Is TOC Headed?	171
6	How Do I Get Started With TOC?	193
	Epilogue	243
	Notes	245
	Index	281

See also: Revealing the Corporation or Globalization and Its Terrors

A Guide to WhatїS Wrong with Economics (Anthem Studies in Political Economy and Globalization Series)

Author: Edward Fullbrook

From the 1960s onward, neoclassical economists have increasingly managed to block the employment of non-neoclassical economists, narrow the economics curriculum offered by universities to students and make their theories increasingly irrelevant to understanding economic reality. Now they are even banishing economic history and the history of economic thought from the curriculum. Why has this tragedy happened?

At a time of accelerating momentum for radical change in the study of economics, A Guide to What’s Wrong with Economics comprehensively re-examines the shortcomings of neoclassical economics and considers a number of alternative formulations. In it, a distinguished list of non-neoclassical economists provide a study of some of the many worldly and logical gaps in neoclassical economics, its hidden ideological agendas, disregard for the environment, habitual misuse of mathematics and statistics, inability to address the major issues of economic globalization, its ethical cynicism concerning poverty, racism and sexism, and its misrepresentation of economic history.

In clear and engaging prose, A Guide to What’s Wrong with Economics shows how interesting, relevant and exciting economics can be when it is pursued not as a defence of an antiquated and close-minded system of belief, but as a no-holds-barred inquiry looking for real-world truths.  This book is a must-read for all economists and advanced students of economics, as well as for the general reader.