American Business History: A Very Short Introduction

ISBN-13: 9780190622473 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 176 str.

Walter A. (Director of the Business History Initiative and L

Opis

This VSI explains how business came to assume massive power and cultural centrality in America. It explores the variety of business enterprise in the United States and analyzes its presence in the country's economy, its evolution over time, and its meaning in society. This VSI pursues its three central themes - the evolution, scale, and culture of American business - in a chronological framework stretching from the American Revolution to today.

O autorze

Walter A. Friedman is a historian and lecturer at Harvard Business School, where hedirects the Business History Initiative and curriculum development at the Case Method Project. He is author of Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America and Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters. He is a past president of the Business History Conference.