| Description |
x, 183 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Routledge international studies in business history ; 14 |
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Routledge international studies in business history ; 14.
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| Note |
"In this book, Anne Mayhew focuses on the stories surrounding the creation of Standard Oil and Wal-Mart and their founders, John D. Rockefeller and Sam Walton, combining the accounts of economists with the somewhat darker pictures painted by writers of fiction to tease out the overarching narratives associated with American big business. Mayhew argues that the diverse views about big business and its effects of welfare can be reconciled and better policies derived from a somewhat unlikely combination of ideas from the business world and from those who have dissented from the most widely accepted story told by economists. This book draws on the work of Chandler, Coase and Williamson, as well as Marx and Veblen's discussion of supply chains to address some of the major social and economics problems of the twenty-first century."--Product description. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-178) and index. |
| Subject |
Big business -- United States -- History.
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Corporations -- United States -- Case studies.
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Standard Oil Company.
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Wal-Mart (Firm)
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Exxon Corporation.
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Wal-Mart Stores.
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| ISBN |
9780415775342 (hb) |
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0415775345 (hb) |
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9780203894385 (eb) |
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0203894383 (eb) |
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