num_pages: 120
description: This book provides the first available introductory, comparative account of the rise of giant business corporations in America and Europe in the century before the Second World War. It discusses the evolution of firms such as Ford, Exxon, Unilever and Siemens, as well as introducing the reader to the major explanations that have been advanced by historians and economists in order to account for these developments in the global economic order.
language: English
title: The Growth of Big Business in the United States and Western Europe, 1850-1939
titlecomplete: The Growth of Big Business in the United States and Western Europe, 1850-1939
ratings_count: 1
series: New Studies in Economic and Social History
publisher: Cambridge University Press