For decades, the RAND Corporation has collaborated with scholars interested in documenting our institution, its work, and the broad variety of research areas in which we have been engaged. The following are a selection of commercial books written about the RAND Corporation.
Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy: The Cold War Origins of Rational Choice Liberalism — 2003
S.M. Amadae, University of Chicago Press
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Cold War Laboratory: RAND, the Air Force, and the American State — 2002
Martin J. Collins, Smithsonian Institution Press
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The Cold War, RAND, and the Generation of Knowledge, 1946–1962 — 1997
David Hounshell, Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 27(2): 237-267
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Systems, Experts, and Computers: The Systems Approach in Management and Engineering After World War II — 2000
Thomas and Agatha Hughes, eds., Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology, The MIT Press
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From Warfare to Welfare: Defense Intellectuals and Urban Problems in Cold War America — 2003
Jennifer S. Light, Johns Hopkins University Press
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The Four Pillars of High Performance: How Robust Organizations Achieve Extraordinary Results — 2005
Paul C. Light, McGraw-Hill
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Ideas in Action: 60 Years of RAND — 2005
Richard Robbins, director
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The Rand Corporation: Case Study of a Nonprofit Advisory Corporation — 1966
Bruce L. R. Smith, Harvard University Press
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How RAND Invented the Postwar World — 2004
Virginia Campbell, American Heritage Invention & Technology, Summer 2004
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Oral history project conducted within the Department of Space History, National Air and Space Museum — 1997
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