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Rise Of The Corporate Commonwealth
Häftad, 1989
345 kr
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A panoramic survey of the interactions between American business and public policy, from J.P. Morgan to Lee Iacocca.
A House Dividing
Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia before the Civil War
Av John Majewski, Louis Galambos
Häftad, 2006
557 kr
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A House Dividing compares Virginia and Pennsylvania to answer a crucial question of American history: how did slavery undermine the development of the southern economy? Extensive archival research reveals that in the first decades of the nineteenth century, local residents in each state financed …
Europe, America, and the Wider World: Volume 2, America and the Wider World
Essays on the Economic History of Western Capitalism
Av William N. Parker, Louis Galambos m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
670 kr
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This volume collects Professor Parker's major writings on American agricultural and industrial history, including some previously unpublished essays. Taken as a whole, these essays give an account of why and how the United States grew rich in the nineteenth century, as well as a background against …
Europe, America, and the Wider World: Volume 1, Europe and the World Economy
Essays on the Economic History of Western Capitalism
Av William Nelson Parker, Louis Galambos m. fl.
Häftad, 1984
586 kr
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Taken together, the essays in this volume offer a particular, yet comprehensive, view of the economic history of Western Europe since the Renaissance. The focus is wide and the level of treatment deep. Between 1550 and 1940, Professor Parker contends, the development of European capitalism was, in …
The State and the Unions
Av Christopher L. Tomlins, Louis Galambos
Häftad, 1985
502 kr
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This book was first published in 1985. The enactment of the Wagner National Labor Relations Act in 1935 gave organized labor what it has regarded ever since as one of its greatest assets: a legislative guarantee of the right of American workers to organize and bargain collectively. Yet while the …
Thinking about Growth
And Other Essays on Economic Growth and Welfare
Av Moses Abramovitz, Louis Galambos m. fl.
Inbunden, 1989
2029 kr
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The essays in this book explore the forces behind modern economic growth and, in particular, the causes of the extraordinary surge of growth since the Second World War. The introductory essay is an extended treatment of how economists now view the growth process and its causes. Other essays …
Economic Development, the Family, and Income Distribution
Selected Essays
Av Simon Kuznets, Louis Galambos m. fl.
Inbunden, 1989
2432 kr
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This is a collection of essays by Simon Kuznets, winner of the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, published posthumously. It represents the primary concerns of his research at a late phase of his career, as well as themes from his earlier work. The first four chapters deal with 'modern …
The Business of Research
RCA and the VideoDisc
Av Margaret B. W. Graham, Louis Galambos m. fl.
Häftad, 1989
384 kr
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The story of the RCA VideoDisc is a rare inside look at a company and the way it conducts the complex process of science-based innovation. For nearly fifty years the RCA name was synonymous with innovation in the industries it helped to build - radio and television broadcasting and manufacturing, …
The Marshall Plan
America, Britain and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947-1952
Av Michael J. Hogan, Louis Galambos
Häftad, 1989
488 kr
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Michael Hogan shows how The Marshall Plan was more than an effort to put American aid behind the economic reconstruction of Europe. American officials hoped to refashion Western Europe into a smaller version of the integrated single-market and mixed capitalist economy that existed in the United …
The Great Depression
Delayed Recovery and Economic Change in America, 1929-1939
Av Michael A. Bernstein, Louis Galambos m. fl.
Häftad, 1989
435 kr
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This 1988 book focuses on the real puzzle of 1930s America: why did the economy fail to recover from the downturn of 1929-33? The author presents a convincing case that there were important long-run tendencies within the economy that are crucial to understanding this failure. From a wealth of …
Anytime, Anywhere
Entrepreneurship and the Creation of a Wireless World
Av Louis Galambos, Eric John Abrahamson
Häftad, 2011
461 kr
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Wireless entrepreneurs are transforming the way people live and work around the globe. In the process they have created some of the fastest-growing companies on the planet. This book tells the story of the birth and explosion of cellular and wireless communications as seen through the eyes of one …
Thinking about Growth
And Other Essays on Economic Growth and Welfare
Av Moses Abramovitz, Louis Galambos m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
737 kr
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The essays in this book explore the forces behind modern economic growth and, in particular, the causes of the extraordinary surge of growth since the Second World War. The introductory essay is an extended treatment of how economists now view the growth process and its causes. Other essays …
Manufacturing Knowledge
A History of the Hawthorne Experiments
Av Richard Gillespie, Louis Galambos m. fl.
Häftad, 1993
468 kr
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What motivates workers to work harder? What can management do to create a contented and productive workforce? Discussion of these questions would be incomplete without reference to the Hawthorne experiments, one of the most famous pieces of research ever conducted in the social and behavioural …
Economic Development, the Family, and Income Distribution
Selected Essays
Av Simon Kuznets, Louis Galambos m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
653 kr
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This is a collection of essays by Simon Kuznets, winner of the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, published posthumously. It represents the primary concerns of his research at a late phase of his career, as well as themes from his earlier work. The first four chapters deal with 'modern …
Drastic Measures
A History of Wage and Price Controls in the United States
Av Hugh Rockoff, Louis Galambos m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
569 kr
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This is a history of America's use of wage and price controls from colonial times to Richard Nixon's experiment with controls in the 1970s. It explores the impact of controls on prices and productivity, side-effects such as the growth of black markets and the expansion of government, and the …
The Making of American Industrial Research
Science and Business at GE and Bell, 1876-1926
Av Leonard S. Reich, Louis Galambos
Häftad, 2002
569 kr
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This book tells the story of how and why industrial research was established in America by two large and innovative corporations: General Electric, formed in a merger of Edison General Electric and Thomson-Houston in 1892, and the dominant force in the American electrical industry ever since; and …
Regulation and the Revolution in United States Farm Productivity
Av Sally H. Clarke, Louis Galambos m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
468 kr
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Since the 1930s when the government began active regulation, US agriculture has undergone a revolution in productivity. Sally Clarke explains how government activity, from support for research to price supports and farm credit programs, created a climate favorable to rapid gains in productivity. …
Innovation as a Social Process
Elihu Thomson and the Rise of General Electric
Av W. Bernard Carlson, Louis Galambos m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
557 kr
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Elihu Thomson was a late-nineteenth-century American inventor who helped create the first electric lighting and power systems. One of the most prolific inventors in American history, Thomson was granted nearly 700 patents in a career spanning the 1880s to 1930s. His inventions included arc and …
Networks of Innovation
Vaccine Development at Merck, Sharp and Dohme, and Mulford, 1895–1995
Häftad, 1997
450 kr
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Networks of Innovation offers an historical perspective on the manner in which private-sector organizations have acquired, sustained, and periodically lost the ability to develop, manufacture, and market new serum antitoxins and vaccines. The primary focus is on the H. K. Mulford Company, on Sharp …
Medicine, Science and Merck
Av P. Roy Vagelos, Louis Galambos
Inbunden, 2004
787 kr
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In Medicine, Science, and Merck, the authors trace the careers of a son of Greek immigrants as he mastered three professions and ultimately became the Chief Executive Officer of America's most admired corporation - the multinational, pharmaceutical giant, Merck and Co., Inc. As the authors show, …
The Moral Corporation
Merck Experiences
Av P. Roy Vagelos, Louis Galambos
Häftad, 2006
552 kr
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Merck and the pharmaceutical industry are headline news today. Controversies over public safety, prices, and the ability of the industry to develop the new drugs and vaccines that society needs have been covered worldwide. Roy Vagelos, who was head of research and then CEO at Merck from the …
Knowledge and Competitive Advantage
The Coevolution of Firms, Technology, and National Institutions
Av Johann Peter Murmann, Geoffrey Jones m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
590 kr
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A comparison of the development of the synthetic dye industry in Great Britain, Germany, and the US. The rise of this industry constitutes an important chapter in business, economic, and technological history because synthetic dyes - invented in 1857 - represent the first time that a scientific …
Knowledge and Competitive Advantage
The Coevolution of Firms, Technology, and National Institutions
Av Johann Peter Murmann, Geoffrey Jones m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
1475 kr
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A comparison of the development of the synthetic dye industry in Great Britain, Germany, and the US. The rise of this industry constitutes an important chapter in business, economic, and technological history because synthetic dyes - invented in 1857 - represent the first time that a scientific …
Anytime, Anywhere
Entrepreneurship and the Creation of a Wireless World
Av Louis Galambos, Eric John Abrahamson
Inbunden, 2002
1425 kr
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Wireless entrepreneurs are transforming the way people live and work around the globe. In the process they have created some of the fastest-growing companies on the planet. This book tells the story of the birth and explosion of cellular and wireless communications as seen through the eyes of one …
The Moral Corporation
Merck Experiences
Av P. Roy Vagelos, Louis Galambos
Inbunden, 2006
1391 kr
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Merck and the pharmaceutical industry are headline news today. Controversies over public safety, prices, and the ability of the industry to develop the new drugs and vaccines that society needs have been covered worldwide. Roy Vagelos, who was head of research and then CEO at Merck from the …
The Global Chemical Industry in the Age of the Petrochemical Revolution
Av Louis Galambos, Takashi Hikino m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
2214 kr
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This book, first published in 2007, presents research by leading scholars to an international audience of academics, business executives, and policy makers. This research is presented in two clusters. The first cluster of studies explores four cross-cutting topics, including surveys of the changes …
Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
The Presidency: Keeping the Peace
Av Louis Galambos, Daun Van Ee
Inbunden, 2001
2133 kr
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Completing a monumental project that began with publication of The War Years in 1970, this final set of volumes of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower contains 1,783 documents drawn from Eisenhower's second term as president from 20 January 1957 to 20 January 1961. In these years Eisenhower …
Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
The Presidency: Keeping the Peace
Av Louis Galambos, Daun Van Ee
Inbunden, 2001
2133 kr
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Completing a monumental project that began with publication of The War Years in 1970, this final set of volumes of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower contains 1,783 documents drawn from Eisenhower's second term as president from 20 January 1957 to 20 January 1961. In these years Eisenhower …
Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
The Presidency: Keeping the Peace
Av Dwight David Eisenhower, Louis Galambos m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
2133 kr
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Completing a monumental project that began with publication of The War Years in 1970, this final set of volumes of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower contains 1,783 documents drawn from Eisenhower's second term as president from 20 January 1957 to 20 January 1961. In these years Eisenhower …
