| Capitalizing on Change: A Social History of American Business Contributor(s): Buder, Stanley (Author) |
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ISBN: 1469654229 ISBN-13: 9781469654225 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $45.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Industries - General - Business & Economics | Economic History - History | United States - General |
| Dewey: 338.097 |
| LCCN: 2008031784 |
| Series: The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. Business, Entrepreneurship, and Public P |
| Physical Information: 1.24" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.86 lbs) 556 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Buder, Stanley: - Stanley Buder is professor emeritus of history at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is author of Pullman: An Experiment in Industrial Order and Community Planning and Visionaries and Planners: The Garden City Movement and the Modern Community. |