Summer 2008 Volume 82 Issue 2  

Article Abstracts

A Special Issue on Alfred D. Chandler Jr.

Thomas K. McCraw

"Alfred Chandler: His Vision and Achievement"

 

Richard R. John

"Turner, Beard, Chandler: Progressive Historians"

 

Neil Fligstein

"Chandler and the Sociology of Organizations"

 

Mira Wilkins

"Chandler and Global Business History"

 

Richard Whittington

"Alfred Chandler, Founder of Strategy: A Lost Tradition and Renewed Inspiration"

 

Martin Jes Iversen

"Measuring Chandler's Impact on European Business Studies since the 1960s"

 

Paul J. Miranti

"Chandler's Paths of Learning"

 

Marie Anchordoguy

"Chandler and Business History in Japan"

 

Mary A. Yeager

"Lessons from Al, Revisited"

    

Selected Book Reviews

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The New Comparative Economic History: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey G. Williamson. Edited by Timothy J. Hatton, Kevin H. O'Rourke, and Alan M. Taylor. Reviewed by Stanley L. Engerman.

Taxi! A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver. By Graham Russell Gao Hodges.Reviewed by Clifton Hood.

A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States. . By Stephen Mihm. Reviewed by Edward Balleisen.

The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed Over Industry. . By Lawrence E. Mitchell. Reviewed by Maury Klein.

The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy. . By Adam Tooze. Reviewed by Richard Tilly.

Tied to the Great Packing Machine: The Midwest and Meatpacking. . By Wilson J. Warren. Reviewed by Shane Hamilton.