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Contextualizing the Corporation - Thomas K. McCraw, ed. Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997). Pp. xii, 711. $59.95 cl., $29.95 pb. - Neil J. Mitchell. The Conspicuous Corporation: Business, Public Policy, and Representative Democracy. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997). Pp. 249. $42.50 cl. - William G. Roy. Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997). Pp. xv, 338. $45.00 cl., $18.95 pb.

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Thomas K. McCraw, ed. Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997). Pp. xii, 711. $59.95 cl., $29.95 pb.
Neil J. Mitchell. The Conspicuous Corporation: Business, Public Policy, and Representative Democracy. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997). Pp. 249. $42.50 cl.
William G. Roy. Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997). Pp. xv, 338. $45.00 cl., $18.95 pb.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 February 2012

Richard R. John
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Journal of Policy History , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , April 2000 , pp. 287 - 292
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Copyright © The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. 2000

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1. For a related discussion, see John, Richard R., “Governmental Institutions as Agents of Change: Rethinking American Political Development in the Early Republic, 1787–1835,” Studies in American Political Development 11 (Fall 1997): 347–80CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2. For an overview of the literature on this subject, see Galambos, Louis, “What Have CEO's Been Doing?” Journal of Economic History 48 (1988): 243–58CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3. For a survey of historical scholarship that has contested Chandler's premises, see John, Richard R., “Elaborations, Revisions, Dissents: Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.'s., The Visible Hand after Twenty Years,” Business History Review 71 (Summer 1997): 151–200CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4. For a related discussion, see McCraw, Thomas K., “Schumpeter Ascending,” American Scholar 90 (Summer 1991): 371–92Google Scholar.

5. Galambos, Louis, ‘What Makes Us Think We Can Put Business Back into American History,” Business and Economic History 20 (1991): 9Google Scholar.