James Grier Miller

James Grier Miller (1916 – 7 November 2002, in

Biography

Miller received his A.B. summa cum laude in 1937, an A.M. in

Having served on the faculty at Harvard, in 1948 he accepted the position of Chairman of the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago, which he held until 1955. From 1955 to 1967 he directed the multi-disciplinary Mental Health Research Institute at the University of Michigan, leaving in 1967 to pursue an administrative career, first as provost of the newly founded Cleveland State University, and then in 1973 as president of the University of Louisville, from which position he retired in 1980.

He was a fellow or member of numerous scientific and professional societies. He served as president of the

• Living systems theory
• Systems theory
• Wikiversity

Publications

Miller has written or co-authored nine books and published more than 100 scientific and scholarly articles.

• 1942. Unconsciousness. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
• 1948. OSS Assessment Staff. Assessment of men. New York: Rinehart & Company.
• 1950. Experiments in social process. (Ed.) New York: Mc Graw-Hill.
• 1959. The pharmacology and clinical usefulness of carisoprodol. (Ed.) Detroit: Wayne State University Press.
• 1960. Drugs and behavior. (Ed.) with L. Uhr. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
• 1978. Living systems. New York: Mc Graw-Hill.
• 1978. Living Systems. The Basic Concepts
• 1989. Measurement and interpretations in accounting: a living systems theory approach. With
  G.A. Swanson
  , New York: Quorum Books.

References

Further reading

Wikiquote has quotations related to James Grier Miller.

• Bernard W. Agranoff (2003). "James Grier Miller, 1916–2002 : Obituary". In: Neuropsychopharmacology (2003) 28, 2221–2222.
• Debora Hammond and Jennifer Wilby (2006). "The life and work of James Grier Miller". In: Systems Research and Behavioral Science. Volume 23, Issue 3, Pages 429 - 435.
• G.A. Swanson. "James Grier Miller (1916-)"
  on ISSS.org.