Capitalizing on Change : A Social History of American Business.
Title:
Capitalizing on Change : A Social History of American Business.
Author:
Buder, Stanley.
ISBN:
9780807889800
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (556 pages)
Series:
The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. Series on Business, Entrepreneurship, and Public Policy
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE. FOUNDATIONS OF A MODERN ECONOMY -- 1 Early Capitalism and the Rise of a Market Economy -- 2 North America's Colonial Economy -- 3 The Early National Economy, 1776-1820 -- 4 Antebellum America, 1820-1860 -- 5 The Unstoppable Engine -- 6 Entrepreneurial Leaves from the Gilded Age -- 7 A Changing Workplace and Society -- PART TWO. FROM THEODORE ROOSEVELT TO REAGAN -- 8 Washington Comes Forward, 1900-1912 -- 9 The Age of Organization -- 10 The Consumer Decade -- 11 Hard Times, 1933-1945 -- 12 The American (Quarter) Century, 1945-1973 -- PART THREE. THE TURN OF THE MILLENNIUM -- 13 Coping with Decline, 1974-1980 -- 14 Restructuring and Rebirth, 1980s -- 15 The New Economy, the Burst Bubble, and an Economy in Trouble, 1990-2008 -- 16 The Rise of a Global Economy -- 17 Thinking Small -- 18 The Twenty-First Century -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Abstract:
Americans love "this year's model," relying on the "new" to be always "improved." Enthusiasm for the new, says Stanley Buder, is essential to American business, where innovation and change stoke the engines of economic energy. To really understand the history of business in America, he argues, we must understand the intertwining dynamics of social and business values. In a history spanning over three hundred years, Buder examines the enveloping expansion of the market economy, the laggardly use of government to modify or control market forces, the rise of consumerism, the shifting role of small business, and much more. He concludes with the explosive development of business in the 1990s and its aftermath of crises and scandals. Along the way, he analyzes the ways American social values foster an entrepreneurial ethos and why the identification of change with progress provides a distinctive and provocative theme in American life. Buder studies American business as not only an engine of wealth accumulation but also an important generator and reflector of American values. Capitalizing on Change is the first full-length business history in recent years to make this relationship clear.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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