How can property rights be protected and contracts be enforced in countries where the rule of law is ineffective or … absent? How can firms from advanced market economies do business in such circumstances? In <I>Lawlessness and Economics … continue under the shadow of the law. Numerous case studies and empirical investigations have demonstrated the variety …

Germany was a common enemy, the American business sector actually had a greater affinity with Germany for most of the … twentieth century. American Big Business in Britain and Germany examines the triangular relationship between the American …, British, and German business communities and how the special relationship that Britain believed it had with the United States …

Recent surveys show that more than half of American entrepreneurs share ownership in their business startups rather …

investigate the history of business ethics in the United States from the 1850s to the 1930s. According to Abend, morality consists … numerous business ethicists and organizations—such as Protestant ministers, business associations, and business schools … of the history of business ethics and a novel framework for understanding and investigating morality in general. …

but have provided miniscule amounts of credit to business enterprises and households. Analyzing the political and banking …

have not yet been fully incorporated--public economics, development, law and economics, health, wage determination, and …

to politics, law, culture, and gender. Swedberg notes that sociologists too often fail to properly emphasize the role …

institutions and networks originally developed with nations in mind, such as the rule of law and respect for private authority …