Authors: John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge, Adrian Wooldridge
ISBN-13: 9780812972870, ISBN-10: 0812972872
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Date Published: January 2005
Edition: Reprint
John Micklethwait oversees coverage of the United States for The Economist. He lives in London. Adrian Wooldridge works for The Economist in Washington, D.C. They are coauthors of A Future Perfect: The Challenge and Promise of Globalization and The Witch Doctors: Making Sense of the Management Gurus.
From the acclaimed authors of A Future Perfect comes the untold story of how the company became the world’s most powerful institution.
In The Company, a highly readable history that manages to be both brief and magisterial, Economist staffers John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge convincingly argue that the modern corporation was one of the prime innovations that fueled the Industrial Revolution. — Daniel Gross
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction: Utopia Limited | ||
1 | Merchants and Monopolists, 3000 B.C.-A.D. 1500 | 1 |
2 | Imperialists and Speculators, 1500-1750 | 15 |
3 | A Prolonged and Painful Birth, 1750-1862 | 37 |
4 | The Rise of Big Business in America, 1862-1913 | 55 |
5 | The Rise of Big Business in Britain, Germany, and Japan, 1850-1950 | 79 |
6 | The Triumph of Managerial Capitalism, 1913-1975 | 101 |
7 | The Corporate Paradox, 1975-2002 | 123 |
8 | Agents of Influence: Multinationals, 1850-2002 | 159 |
Conclusion: The Future of the Company | 181 | |
Bibliographic Note | 193 | |
Notes | 199 | |
Index | 213 |