Article: Inside the Business Enterprise: Historical Perspectives on the Use of Information.

This book is the proceedings of a Conference on Microeconomic History organised by the (US) National Bureau of Economic Research in October 1990. The objective of the conference is clearly explained in Peter Temin's very readable introduction. In essence, the conference was an attempt to bridge the gap between economists who see business enterprises as 'the "atoms" of economics, the irreducible unit of analysis' and business historians who have a tendency to dwell on the single firm. All the papers focus on 'the Gilded Age' of the development of the large-scale American enterprise, the years around the beginning of the twentieth century.

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