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  • Economy and Society in an Earlier America

  • Stuart Bruchey
  • Journal:
    The Journal of Economic History / Volume 47 / Issue 2 / June 1987
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    03 March 2009, pp. 299-319
    Print publication:
    June 1987

  • I suggest here that change in a number of social variables, including values, vertical mobility, political and social power, technology and law, appear to be associated with economic growth or decline and that the study of economic history would be enriched by investigations of the nature and timing of those linkages. Illustrative models of the linkages are drawn for the early Middle Ages in Western Europe and for the colonial and antebellum periods of American history.

  • Success and Failure Factors: American Merchants in Foreign Trade in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries*

  • Stuart Bruchey
  • Journal:
    Business History Review / Volume 32 / Issue 3 / Autumn 1958
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    24 July 2012, pp. 272-292
    Print publication:
    Autumn 1958

  • No definitive comparison of factors contributing to success and failure in business is possible. Yet a look at some of those factors, operative in a number of similar circumstances, helps sharpen the customary vague generalizations. An examination of the elements of prudence, diligence, housekeeping habits, intelligence, foresight, use of agents, degree of control, and teamwork suggests that in commerce of the period luck was probably of less influence than commonly supposed. A by-product of this broad inquiry is a specific and highly illuminating comparative picture of mercantile business practice.