Big Business and the Wealth of Nations

By Alfred D. Chandler Jr

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521663474
• ISBN13: 9780521663472
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 612 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Essential

This is a book that every person interested in entrepreneurial history should read. Directed, among others, by Alfred Chandler, the father of the discipline as it is now, it provides an overview of the different cultural and institutional backgrounds that make possible -or don't- entrepreneurship in many countries.

I don't agree with all its conclusions, but

...I can't argue with thee diligence of the scholars who contributed to this volume.Readers should be warned. If this is your first attempt at studying industrial history, it is difficult going. It is not really "economics" in the usual way. Nor is it history as you have usually read it.It is a series of case studies about the industrial development of nations all over the world, aimed at supporting some very controversial theses about what does and what does not work toward that end.