Capitalizing on change

"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." "Capitalizing on Change sheds light on the evolution of business organization over time and it explores the laggardly growth of the use of government power to modify or control market forces. 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 scandal. 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 treats 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."--Jacket.

שנה

2009

שפה

English

סדרה

The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. series on business, society, and the state

הוצאה

University of North Carolina Press

מהדורות

4

עמודים

541

ISBN

9780807832318

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