Scott A. Sandage

"In this book about the cultural ramifications and economic failure in nineteenth-century America, Sandage has taken on an important and underexamined subject and scrutinized it in inventive ways, using unexpected and largely unmined sources."
‹Benjamin Schwarz, Atlantic Monthly

Click here to view on Amazon

Istvan Hont

This collection explores eighteenth-century theories of international market competition that continues to be relevant for the twenty-first century. "Jealous of trade" refers to a particular conjunction between politics and the economy that emerged when success in international trade became a matter of the military and political survival of nations.

Click here to view on Amazon

In retelling success stories from Benjamin Franklin to Andrew Carnegie to Bill Gates, Pamela Laird goes beyond personality, upbringing, and social skills to reveal the critical common key‹access to circles that control and distribute opportunity and information. She contrasts how Americans have prospered‹or not‹with how we have tlaked about prospering.

Click here to view on Amazon

Alfred D Chandler, Jr.

Consumer electronics and computers redefined life and work in the twentieth century. In Inventing the Electronic Century, Pulitzer Prize-winning business historian Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., traces their origins and world-wide development. From electronics, prime mover RCA in the 1920s to Sony and Matsushita's dramatic rise in the 1970s; from IBM's dominance in computer technology in the 1950s to Microsoft's stunning example of the creation of competitive advantage, this masterful analysis is essential reading for every manager and student of technology.

Click here to view on Amazon

Alfred D Chandler, Jr.

The dean of business historians continues his masterful chronicle of the transforming revolutions of the twentieth century. He details research and development strategies for nearly every major chemical and pharmaceutical firm, demonstrating why some companies forged ahead while others failed.

Click here to view on Amazon

Steven F. Wilson

In the 1990s, some failing school systems turned to private education management organizations to manage their schools. In Learning on the Job, industry insider Steven Wilson, the founder and CEO of Advantage Schools, looks back on the first tumultuous decade of this social experiment. Digging deep into the academic, financial, logistic, and political records of seven leading EMOs, he reveals the potential and pitfalls of their business and educational models, and their actual successes in the classrooms and the boardrooms.

Click here to view on Amazon

Liah Greenfeld

"[An] important new book...Liah Greenfeld argues that patriotism, or nationalism, may have a lot more to do with economic motivation than you think. Most of us have come to accept the economist's view of humanity: On the whole, we are rational actors; we are naturally acquistive, when political or social barriers are removed, most of us will go off on a determined quest to make money and achieve ever greater success. For most people at most times and in most places, economic growth was not a central or even an important goal."
‹David Brooks, Wall Street Journal

Click here to view on Amazon

Emma Rothschild

"This landmark work revisits the intellectual ferment of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries...[Rothschild] dismantles, with quiet authority, the stereotype of the Enlightenment as a period dominated by chilly rationalists."
‹New Yorker

Click here to view on Amazon