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9781560009221

Absentee Ownership: Business Enterprise in Recent Times - The Case of America

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  • ISBN13:

    9781560009221

  • ISBN10:

    1560009225

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1996-11-30
  • Publisher: Routledge
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Absentee Ownership is an inquiry into economic circumstances as they have taken shape in the twentieth century, particularly as exemplified in the case of America. According to Thorstein Veblen, absentee ownership is the main and immediate controlling interest in the life of civilized men.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Transaction Edition vii
Preface xxiii
PART I
Introductory
3(8)
The Growth and Value of National Integrity
11(29)
Law and Custom in Recent Times
40(29)
The Era of Free Competition
69(13)
The Rise of the Corporation
82(19)
The Captain of Industry
101(18)
The Case of America
119(86)
PART II
The New Order of Business
205(24)
The Industrial System of the New Order
229(22)
The Technology of Physics and Chemistry
251(33)
Manufactures and Salesmanship
284(42)
The Larger Use of Credit
326(72)
The Secular Trend
398

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