A popular text and valuable resource since the first edition was published in 1972, Robert Sobel's "The Age of Giant Corporations" is now available in a third edition, bringing the history up to the present. This book describes the industries and corporations that have played major roles in the nation's economic growth since the outbreak of World War I. It concentrates on management, technology, marketing and finance, and is concerned with the interrelations and intertwining of political and industrial power. The current edition includes a new chapter covering the impact of junk bonds and...
A popular text and valuable resource since the first edition was published in 1972, Robert Sobel's "The Age of Giant Corporations" is now available...
Several books have been written on the crash itself but non before has dealt with events leading up to it.
The era of the 1920s was one of economic growth, and not merely tinsel and ballyhoo. For most of the period, stock market prices were not unreasonably high and investment capitalism matured and took on its present-day power. It was Wall Street's silver age.
It was also and age of time purchases and of buying stocks on margin; an age when both practices were abused, but when Wall Street was no worse than Main Street. It was a period when government would not take major...
Several books have been written on the crash itself but non before has dealt with events leading up to it.
