Major League Baseball faced increased competition from radio broadcasts and improvements in motion pictures during the 1920s and 1930s. The "Roaring Twenties" were followed by the Great Depression. As social norms changed, some owners fought for the right to stage home games on Sundays. Owners...

This book combines elements of economic and business history to study business ethics from the nineteenth century to today. It concentrates on American and British business history, delving into issues such as slavery, industrialization, firm behavior and monopolies, and Ponzi schemes. This book...

This book combines elements of economic and business history to study business ethics from antiquity to the nineteenth century. This book begins with so-called primitive people, showing how humans began to exchange goods and commodities from trade as a way to keep peace and prosper. The ancients...

Machine generated contents note: List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Baseball's Interminable Wars 2. The Rise of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis 3. Baseball's Longstanding Gambling Problem 4. The Financial Side of the Game 5. Getting Fans to the Ballpark 6. Trying to Make the Game More...

1. You Can’t Live (Well) Without Business Ethics -- 2. Overview of Business Ethics -- 3. Primitive Trade -- 4. Ancient Trade in the Near East -- 5. Greek Society -- 6. Roman Society -- 7. Jewish and Christian Attitudes -- 8. Islam and Business Ethics -- 9. Medieval Business Ethics -- 10....

1. Labor Resists -- 2. Early Nineteenth-Century Changes -- 3. Examples of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Business Ethics in America -- 4. Rise of Industrialization -- 5. Ethics of the Firm and Strategic Behavior -- 6. John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil -- 7. Rise of the Big Retail Merchants -- 8....

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Baseball's Interminable Wars -- 2. The Rise of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis -- 3. Baseball's Longstanding Gambling Problem -- 4. The Financial Side of the Game -- 5. Getting Fans to the...