Main description: The financial crisis of 2008 made Americans keenly aware of the impact Wall Street has on the economic well-being of the nation and its citizenry. Ott shows how the government, corporations, and financial institutions transformed stock investment from an elite to a mass...

To understand business and its political, cultural, and economic context, it helps to view it historically, yet most business histories look no further back than the nineteenth century. The full sweep of business history actually begins much earlier, with the initial cities of Mesopotamia. In...

Combining historical and economic analysis, this book shows how, beginning in the 1950s, a largely predictable business has been transformed into a volatile and complex multimedia enterprise now commanding over 80 percent of the world's film business. At the same time, the book asks how the...

Consumer electronics and computers redefined life and work in the twentieth century. In Inventing the Electronic Century, Pulitzer Prize-winning business historian Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. traces their origins and worldwide development. From electronics prime mover RCA in the 1920s to Sony and...

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Editors' Introduction -- Authors' Preface -- CHAPTER 1. PIONEERING AN INDUSTRY: The Lowell Manufacturing Company, 1828-1852 -- CHAPTER 2. PIONEERING AN INDUSTRY: The Connecticut Companies, 1825-1854 -- CHAPTER 3. PIONEERING AN INDUSTRY: Three Younger Companies,...

"À travers le prisme de la dette, c'est toute une conception de la vie en société qui se déroule. La dette est plus que jamais un sujet politique." Depuis plusieurs décennies, le volume de la dette publique française enfle de manière irréversible. Les récentes crises - financières,...