Capitalizing on change : a social history of American business
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 consumer
eBook, English, ©2009
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, ©2009
History
1 online resource (x, 541 pages) : illustrations
9780807889800, 9781469605982, 0807889806, 1469605988
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Early capitalism and the rise of a market economy
North America's colonial economy
The early national economy, 1776-1820
Antebellum America, 1820-1860
The unstoppable engine
Entrepreneurial leaves from the Gilded Age
A changing workplace and society
Washington comes forward, 1900-1912
The age of organization
The consumer decade
Hard times, 1933-1945
The American (quarter) century, 1945-1973
Coping with decline, 1974-1980
Restructuring and rebirth, 1980s
The new economy, the burst bubble, and an economy in trouble, 1990-2008
The rise of a global economy
Thinking small
The Twenty-first century