Major Articles in periodicals

compiled by Richard Brem

"What Became of the Prussian Army" ,
Virginia Quarterly Review, Jan. 1941

"Meaning and Function of Economic Function Today" ,
Review of Politics, April 1943

"Keynes, White, and Postwar Currency" ,
Harper's, July 1943

"Exit King Cotton" ,
Harper's, May 1946

"Keynes: Economics as a Magical System" ,
Virginia Quarterly Review, Oct. 1946

"Way to Industrial Peace" ,
Harper's, Jan. 1946

"Who Should Get a Rasie and When?" ,
Harper's, March 1946

"Henry Ford: Success and Failure" ,
Harper's, July 1947

"Key to American Politics: Calhoun's Pluralism" ,
Review of Politics, Oct. 1948

"Function of Profits" ,
Fortune, March 1949

"The Unfashionable Kierkegaard" ,
Sewanee Review, Oct. 1949

"Are We Having Too Many Babies?" ,
Saturday Evening Post, May 6, 1950

"Care and Feeding of Small Business" ,
Harper's, Aug. 1950

"Mirage of Pensions" ,
Harper's, Feb. 1950

"Labor in Industrial Society" ,
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, March 1951

"Frontier for Thos Century" ,
Harper's, March 1952

"How to Be an Employee" ,
Fortune, May 1952

"Myth of American Uniformity" ,
Harper's, May 1952

"Productivity Is an Attitude" ,
Nation's Business, April 1952

"The American Genius Is Political" ,
Perspective U.S.A., Spring 1953

"The Employee Society" ,
American Journal of Sociology, Jan. 1953

"The Liberal Discovers Big Business" ,
Yale Review, June 1953

"Today's Young People: More Responsible Than You Were" ,
Nation's Business, June 1953

"Integration of People and Planning" ,
Harvard Business Review, Nov.-Dec. 1955

"America Becomes a Have-Not Nation" ,
Harper's, April 1956

"Marketing and Economic Development" ,
Journal of Marketing, Jan. 1958

"Business Objectives and Survival Needs" ,
Journal of Business, April 1958

"Organized Religion and the American Creed" ,
Review of Politics, July 1958

"Long-Range Planning: Challenge to Management Science" ,
Management Science, April 1959

"Potentials of Management Science" ,
Harvard Business Review, Jan.-Feb. 1959

"Work and Tools" ,
Technology and Culture, Winter 1959

"The Art of Being an Effective President" ,
Harper's, Aug. 1960

"Politics for a New Generation" ,
Harper's, June-Aug. 1960

"The Baffled Young Men of Japan" ,
Harper's, Jan. 1961

"The Technological Revolution: Notes on the Relationship of Technology, Science and Culture" ,
Technology and Culture, Fall 1961

"This Competitive World" ,
Harvard Business Review, March-April 1962

"Big Business and the National Purpose" ,
Harvard Business Review, March-April 1962

"Economy's Dark Continent" ,
Fortune, April 1962

"Japan Tries for a Second Miracle" ,
Harper's, March 1963

"Managing for Business Effectiveness" ,
Harvard Business Review, May-June 1963

"Twelve Fables of Research Management" ,
Harvard Business Review, Jan.-Feb. 1963

"Care and Feeding of the Profitable Product" ,
Fortune, March 1964

"If I Were a Company President" ,
Harper's, April 1964

"American Direction: A Forecast" ,
Harper's, Feb. 1965

"Automation Is Not the Villain" ,
New York Times Magazine, Jan. 10, 1965

"Crash New Year?" ,
Harper's, June 1965

"Is Business Letting Young People Down?" ,
Harvard Business Review, Nov.-Dec., 1965

"The First Technological Revolution and Its Lessons" ,
Technology and Culture, Spring 1966

"This Romantic Generation" ,
Harper's, May 1966

"Notes on the New Politics" ,
The Public Interest, Summer 1966

"How to Manage Your Time" ,
Harper's, Dec. 1966

"Frederick W. Taylor: The Professional Management Pioneer" ,
Advanced Management Journal, Oct. 1967

"Worker and Work in the Metropolis" ,
Daedalus, Fall 1968

"On the Economic Basis of American Politics" ,
The Public Interest, Winter 1968

"The Sickness of Government" ,
Nation's Business, March 1969

"The Owner and Future Manager" ,
Management Today, May 1969

"The Shame of Marketing" ,
Marketing Communication, Aug. 1969

"Is Technology Credible?" ,
Technology and Culture, Oct. 1969

"Management's New Role" ,
Harvard Business Review, Nov.-Dec. 1969

"The Surprising Seventies" ,
Harper's, July and Sept. 1971

"What We Can Learn from Japanese Management" ,
Harvard Business Review, Mar.-Apr. 1971

"How Best to Protect the Environment" ,
Reader's Digest, Mar. 1972

"New Templates for Today's Organization" ,
Harvard Business Review, Jan.-Feb. 1974

"Multinationals and Developing Countries: Myths and Realities" ,
Foreign Affairs, Oct. 1974

"How to Make the Presidency Manageable" ,
Fortune, Nov. 1974

"Six Durable Economic Myths" ,
Wall Street Journal, Sept. 6, 1975

"Managing the Knowledge Worker" ,
Wall Street Journal, Sept. 6, 1975

"Japan: The Problems of Success" ,
Foreign Affairs, Apr. 1978

"Monster and the Lamb"(Excerpt from "Adventures of a Bystander" ),
Atlantic, Dec. 1978

"Science and Industry: Challenges of Antagonistic Interdependence" ,(Adaption of an address),
Science, May 25, 1979

"Japan Gets Ready for Tougher Times" ,
Fortune, Nov. 3, 1980

"Behind Japan's Success" ,
Harvard Business Review, Jan.-Feb. 1981

"Education: The Crisis Is the Same Everywhere" ,
Christianity Today, June 12, 1981

"Ethical Chic" ,
Forbes, Sept. 14, 1981

"How to Manage the Boss" ,
Wall Street Journal, Aug. 1, 1981

"Leadership: More Doing Than Dash" ,
Wall Street Journal, Jan. 6, 1981

"Why Some Mergers Work and Many More Don't" ,
Forbes, Jan. 18, 1982

"Schumpeter and Keynes" ,
Forbes, May 23, 1983

"Thomas Watson's Principles of Modern Management" ,
Esquire, Dec. 1983

"Business Innovation: Our Entrepreneurial Economy" ,
Current, May 1984

"Getting Things Done: How to Make People Decisions" ,
Harvard Business Review, July-Aug. 1985

"Why Automation Pays Off" ,
Wall Street Journal, Sept. 30, 1985

"The Changed World Economy" ,
Foreign Affairs, Spring 1986

"Japan's Choices" ,
Foreign Affairs, Summer 1987

"Keeping U.S. Companies Productive" ,
Journal of Business Strategy, Winter 1987

"Management: The Problems of Success" ,
Academy of Management Executive, Feb. 1987

"The Mystery of the Business Leader" ,
Wall Street Journal, Sept. 29, 1987

"Business of the Future" ,
Current, July 1988

"The Coming of the New Organization" ,
Harvard Business Review, Jan.-Feb. 1988

"Management and the World's Work" ,
Haravrd Business Review, Sept.-Oct. 1988

"Take Me to Your Leader" ,
Inc., Feb. 1988

"Teaching the Work of Management" ,
New Management", Fall 1988

"Tomorrow's Restless Managers" ,
Industry Week, Apr.18, 1988

"How Schools Must Change" ,
Psychology Today, May 1989

"New Age Sessions Are Same Old Brainwashing" ,
Wall Street Journal, Feb. 9, 1989

"The New World According to Drucker"(with Niles Howard) ,
Business Monthly, May 1989

"Peter Drucker Asks" ,
Industry Week, March 20, 1989

"Peter Drucker's 1990s" ,
Economist, Oct.21, 1989

"The Post-Business Knowledge Society Begins" ,
Industry Week, April 17, 1989

"Sell the Mailroom" ,
Wall Street Journal, July 25, 1989

"What Business Can Learn from Non-Profits" ,
Harvard Business Review, July-Aug. 1989

"After Protection, a Time for Risks" ,
New York Times Magazine, June 10, 1990

"The Best Book on Management Ever" ,
Fortune, April 23, 1990

"The Emerging Theory of Manufacturing" ,
Harvard Business Review, May-June 1990

"The Limits of Government" ,
Design for Arts in Education, March-April 1990

"Making Managers of Communism's Bureaucrats" ,
Wall Street Journal, Aug. 15, 1990

"The Third Sector: America's Non Market Counterculture" ,
New Perspectives Quarterly, Spring 1990

"A Better Way to Pay for College" ,
Wall Street Journal, May 9, 1991

"The Big Three Miss Japan's Crucial Lessons" ,
Wall Street Journal, June 18, 1991

"Business of Bureaucracy" ,
Society, Sept.-Oct. 1991

"Don't Change Corporate Culture: Use It!" ,
Wall Street Journal, March 28, 1991

"How to Be Competitive Though Big" ,
Wall Street Journal, Feb. 7, 1991

"It Profits Us to Strengthen Our Profits" ,
Wall Street Journal, Dec. 19, 1991

"Japan: New Strategies for a New Rality" ,
Wall Street Journal, Oct. 2, 1991

"The New Productivity Challenge" ,
Harvard Business Review, Nov.-Dec. 1991

"Our Irritable Friend"(Book review of "The Japan That Can Say No") ,
New York Times Book Review, Jan. 13, 1991

"Reckoning with the Pension Fund Revolution" ,
Harvard Business Review, March-April 1991

"Secrets of the U.S. Export Boom" ,
Wall Street Journal, Aug. 1, 1991

"The Accountable School" ,
Director, Dec. 1992

"Be Data Literate: Know What to Know" ,
Wall Street Journal, Dec. 1, 1992

"Beyond the Blue-Collar Worker" ,
Modern Office Technology, Dec. 1992

"Doing Good in Challenging Times"(with Richard Steckel) ,
Wilson Library Bulletin, Dec. 1992

"The Economy's Power Shift" ,
Wall Street Journal, Sept. 24, 1992

"The Future Is Already Around Us" ,
Modern Office Technology, Oct. 1992

"Focusing on the New World Economy" ,
Modern Office Technology, Nov. 1992

"How '90s Changes Will Affect Business" ,
San Francisco Chronicle, March 23, 1992

"The New Society of Organizations" ,
Harvard Business Review, Sept.-Oct. 1992

"Planning for Uncertainty" ,
Wall Street Journal, July 22, 1992

"The Post-Capitalist World" ,
Public Interest, Fall 1992

"Productivity Will Be Challenge of '90s" ,
San Francisco Chronicle, March 30, 1992

"Reflections of a Social Ecologist" ,
Society, May-June 1992

"There's More Than One Kind of Team" ,
Wall Street Journal, Feb. 11, 1992

"Where the New Markets Are" ,
Wall Street Journal, April 9, 1992

"China's Growth Area: The Service Sector" ,
Wall Street Journal, April 9, 1992

"The End of Japan Inc.?" ,
Foreign Affairs, Spring 1993

"The Five Deadly Business Sins",
Wall Street Journal, Oct. 21, 1993

"Japan Inc.'s Shaky Future" ,
Harper's, July 1993

"Plan Now for the Future" ,
Modern Office Technology, March 1993

"The Post-Capitalist World" ,
Current, Feb. 1993

"Professionals' Productivity" ,
Across the Board, Nov.-Dec. 1993

"Restructuring Middle Management" ,
Modern Office Technology, Jan. 1993

"The Retail Revolution",
Wall Street Journal, July 15, 1993

"Retailing in a Post-Capitalist Society" ,
Stores Magazine, Aug. 1993

"The Rise of the Knowledge Society" ,
Wilson Quarterly, Spring 1993

"Seeking Financial Accountability" ,
Modern Office Technology, Feb. 1993

"Six Rules for Presidents" ,
Wall Street Journal, Sept. 22, 1993

"Tomorrow's Managers" ,
Success, Oct. 1993

"A Turnaround Primer" ,
Wall Street Journal, Feb. 2, 1993

"We Need to Measure, Not Count" ,
Wall Street Journal, April 13, 1993

"The Age of Social Transformation" ,
Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 1994

"The Continuing Feminisr Experiment" ,
Wall Street Journal, Oct. 17, 1994

"Five Questions" ,
Executive Excellence, Nov. 1994

"How to Save the Family Business" ,
Wall Street Journal, Aug. 19, 1994

"Infoliteracy" ,
Forbes, Aug. 29, 1994

"The New Superpower" ,
Wall Street Journal, Dec. 20, 1994

"Political Correctness and American Academe" ,
Society, Nov.-Dec. 1994

"The Theory of the Business" ,
Harvard Business Review, Sept.-Oct. 1994

"Trade Lessons from the World Economy" ,
Foreign Affairs, Jan.-Feb. 1994

"A Weak Dollar Strenghtens Japan" ,
Wall Street Journal, Nov. 22, 1994

"Deep Beneath a Hurricane-Tormented Sea: Social Currents at Work" ,
Houston Chronicle, Jan. 1, 1995

"From Stalinism to Multiculturalism: Political Correctiveness and American Academe" ,
Current, Feb. 1995

"The Information Executives Truly Need" ,
Harvard Business Review, Jan.-Feb. 1995

"The Network Society" ,
Wall Street Journal, March 29, 1995

"Drucker's Challenge for CMAs" ,
Managing Accounting Magazine, June 1995

"Noted" ,
Training, June 1995

"Paying Attention" ,
World Business, Spring 1995

"Really Inventing Government" ,
Atlantic Monthly, Feb. 1995

"Rethinking Work" ,
Executive Excellence, Feb. 1995

"Five Years Ago in 'The Corporate Board'" ,
The Corporate Board, May-June 1996

"Leaders Are Doers" ,
Executive Excellence, April 1996

"Management Is Not a Technique" ,
Across the Board, Jan. 1996

"Not Enough Generals Were Killed!" ,
Forbes, April 8, 1996

"The Global Economy and the Nation-State" ,
Foreign Affairs, Sept./Oct. 1997

"Management's New Paradigms" ,
Forbes, Oct. 5, 1998

"Beyond the Information Revolution" ,
Atlantic Monthly, Oct. 1999"

"Innovate or Die. Drucker on Financial Services" ,
The Economist, Sept. 25, 1999

"The Next Society: A Survey of the Near Future" ,
The Economist, Nov. 3, 2001