Capitalizing on Change : A Social History of American Business /

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Americans love "this year's model," relying on the "new" to be always "improved." Enthusiasm for the new, says Stanley Buder, is essential to American business, where innovation and change stoke the engines of economic energy. To really understand the history of bu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Buder, Stanley
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Industries > Social aspects.
Capitalism.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
Industries > Social aspects > United States > History.
Capitalism > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Early capitalism and the rise of a market economy
  • North America's colonial economy
  • The early national economy, 1776-1820
  • Antebellum America, 1820-1860
  • The unstoppable engine
  • Entrepreneurial leaves from the Gilded Age
  • A changing workplace and society
  • Washington comes forward, 1900-1912
  • The age of organization
  • The consumer decade
  • Hard times, 1933-1945
  • The American (quarter) century, 1945-1973
  • Coping with decline, 1974-1980
  • Restructuring and rebirth, 1980s
  • The new economy, the burst bubble, and an economy in trouble, 1990-2008
  • The rise of a global economy
  • Thinking small
  • The Twenty-first century.

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