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Article: Big Business and the Wealth of Nations
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- Business History Review
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- April 1, 2007
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Big Business and the Wealth of Nations. Edited by Alfred D. Chandler Jr., Franco Amatori, and Takashi Hikino. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 574 pp. Cloth, $95.00; paper, $34.99. ISBN: cloth, 0-521-48123-6; paper, 0-521-66347-4.
Reviewed by Nuria Puig
Difficult as they may be to review, edited volumes can work well in the classroom. I have successfully taught Big Business and the Wealth of Nations, a collection of essays by sixteen well-respected business historians edited by Alfred D. Chandler, Franco Amatori, and Takashi Hikino. A carefully prepared comparative study, this book addresses a topic that is now captivating European students of business and economics: the ...