Big Business and the Wealth of Nations
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (US) |
| ISBN-13 | 9780511665349 |
| Open Library | OL19323534W |
| Total publications | 3 |
| Coverage period | 1997 - 1997 |
| Language | EN |
Written in non-technical terms, this book explains how the dynamics of big business have influenced national and international economies. A path-breaking study, it provides the first systematic treatment of big business in advanced, emerging, and centrally-planned economies from the late nineteenth century, when big businesses first appeared in American and West European manufacturing, to the present. Large industrial enterprises play a vital role in developing new technologies and commercializing new products in all of the major countries. How such firms emerged and evolved in different economic, political, and social settings constitutes a significant part of twentieth-century world history. This historical review of big business is particularly valuable today, when the viability of large enterprises is being challenged by small firms, networks, and alliances. These essays, written by internationally-known historians and economists, help one understand the essential role and functions of big business.
Germany
“Competition abroad - cooperation at home” was the leitmotif of German manufacturing business through most of the past century. In the years before World War I, German industry developed along liberal capitalistic principles with the important qualification of a powerful protectionism resting on the two pillars of tariffs and cartels, both of which were manifestations of a deliberate government policy to curtail competition and to engineer a soci…
Big Business and the Wealth of Nations
Written in non-technical terms, this book explains how the dynamics of big business have influenced national and international economies. A path-breaking study, it provides the first systematic treatment of big business in advanced, emerging, and centrally-planned economies from the late nineteenth century, when big businesses first appeared in American and West European manufacturing, to the present. Large industrial enterprises play a vital rol…
Japan
Japan, to its good fortune, avoided colonization, thanks to its quick emergence from self-imposed isolation and mutual restraint among the Western powers. Its continued independence was one way in which Japan differed from Korea or China. In fact, Japan not only managed to eliminate its unequal treaties with the Western powers by about 1910 but also turned Korea into its own colony and began working toward domination of East Asia.
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Germany
“Competition abroad - cooperation at home” was the leitmotif of German manufacturing business through most of the past century. In the years before World War I, German industry developed along liberal capitalistic principles with the important qualification of a powerful protectionism resting on the two pillars of tariffs and cartels, both of which were manifestations of a deliberate government policy to curtail competition and to engineer a soci…
Big Business and the Wealth of Nations
Written in non-technical terms, this book explains how the dynamics of big business have influenced national and international economies. A path-breaking study, it provides the first systematic treatment of big business in advanced, emerging, and centrally-planned economies from the late nineteenth century, when big businesses first appeared in American and West European manufacturing, to the present. Large industrial enterprises play a vital rol…
Japan
Japan, to its good fortune, avoided colonization, thanks to its quick emergence from self-imposed isolation and mutual restraint among the Western powers. Its continued independence was one way in which Japan differed from Korea or China. In fact, Japan not only managed to eliminate its unequal treaties with the Western powers by about 1910 but also turned Korea into its own colony and began working toward domination of East Asia.