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The Corporation and the Twentieth Century : The History of American Business Enterprise /
"A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial eraThe twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States. An organizational transformation, from entrepreneurial to managerial capitalism, brought forth what became a dominant narr...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2023]
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| Edición: | 1st Edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Invisible, Visible, and Vanishing Hands
- 2. Origins
- 3. The Progressive Era
- The Light of Reason and the Necessity of Modern Society
- Business Groups
- The All-Permeating Principle of the Universe
- Angle of Repose
- 4. The Seminal Catastrophe
- The Export Department
- Moral Equivalence
- Wartime Socialism
- An Industrial Engineer's Utopia
- 5. Interlude
- A Cloud of Suspicion
- Structure and Strategy
- One Hand Must Control It
- Prologue to a Much Later Future
- 6. The Real Catastrophe
- Contraction
- Purchasing Power
- We Want Beer
- The Day of Enlightened Administration
- Research and Development
- 7. Arsenal Again
- Bottlenecks of Business
- Economic Consequences
- Priorities
- Piquette Avenue
- 8. The Corporate Era
- Reconversion
- In Spite of Possible Cost
- Industrial Policy
- Trente Glorieuses
- 9. The Undoing
- Out of the Woods
- Destruction
- An Elephants' Graveyard
- Disintermediation
- Epilogue: Then and Now
- Notes
- References
- Epigraph Credits
- Index