After one hundred years
Subtitle: corporate profits, wealth & American society
By: Joseph J. Dunn
Publisher: [CreateSpace?]
Published: 2011
Place of publication: [Scotts Valley, Calif.?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9781466249547
Subjects: Economic conditions; Corporate profits; History; American Corporations; Law and legislation; Corporations; Nonprofit organizations; Wealth; Conditions économiques; Entreprises; Profits; Histoire; Associations sans but lucratif; Richesse; Economic history
Other titles: After 100 years
Description: The story of a century of experiments involving huge corporations, the best and worst of government regulation, and the growth, sometimes against powerful opposition, of America's vibrant non-profit sector.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-386) and index.
Table of contents: title: Customers; title: A primer on profits; title: Big oil; title: Alternative energy; title: Big pharmaceutical companies; title: Consumer staples; title: Health insurers; title: Retailers; title: Automobiles; title: The unexpected end of laissez-faire; title: "; title: the only thing we have to fear is; title: "; title: The dark age of American innovation; title: Tax competition; title: "Show me the money"; title: "To promote the well-being of mankind"; title: Jay Gould; title: John Jacob Astor; title: Marshall Field; title: Andrew Carnegie; title: John D. Rockefeller; title: Ancient problems, new approaches; title: Legacies; title: Looking forward.