Company A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea The

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Product details:

• ISBN 10: 1588360903
• ISBN 13: 9781588360908 
• Author: John Micklethwait; Adrian Wooldridge
  

From the acclaimed authors of A Future Perfect comes the untold story of how the company became the world’s most powerful institution. Like all groundbreaking books, The Company fills a hole we didn’t know existed, revealing that we cannot make sense of the past four hundred years until we place that seemingly humble Victorian innovation, the joint-stock company, in the center of the frame. With their trademark authority and wit, Economist editors John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge reveal the company to be one of history’s great catalysts, for good and for ill, a mighty engine for sucking in, recombining, and pumping out money, goods, people, and culture to every corner of the globe. What other earthly invention has the power to grow to any size, and to live to any age? What else could have given us both the stock market and the British Empire? The company man, the company town, and company time? Disneyfication and McDonald’sization, to say nothing of Coca-colonialism? Through its many mutations, the company has always incited controversy, and governments have always fought to rein it in. Today, though Marx may spin in his grave and anarchists riot in the streets, the company exercises an unparalleled influence on the globe, and understanding what this creature is and where it comes from has never been a more pressing matter. To the rescue come these acclaimed authors, with a short volume of truly vast range and insight.

Table contents:

Part 1. Merchants and Monopolists 3000 B.C.–A.D. 1500
Part 2. Imperialists and Speculators 1500–1750
Part 3. A Prolonged and Painful Birth 1750–1862
Part 4. The Rise of Big Business In America 1862–1913
Part 5. The Rise of Big Business in Britain, Germany, and Japan 1850–1950
Part 6. The Triumph of Managerial Capitalism 1913–1975
Part 7. The Corporate Paradox 1975–2002
Part 8. Agents of Influence: Multinationals 1850–2002

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