260 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1976, this much acclaimed book looks at the story of how today's large corporations have superseded the small competing firms of the nineteenth century. The long-run analysis confirms that the crucial periods in the formulation of the modern corporate system were the 1920's and 1960's. The merger wave of these decades was associated with a desire to improve the efficiency of... Read more
1. Business: history and economics
2. The industrial inheritance; the growth of firms to 1914
3. The rationalization movement
4. Government: trustbuster or promoter
5. Capitalist ownership and the stock market
6. Management and the limits to growth
7. The rise of the corporate economy: dimensions
8. The rise of the corporate economy: directions
9. From the 1930's to the 1950's : continuity or change?
10. The modern corporate economy
11. The upshot for welfare
Biography
Hannah, Leslie
