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Money & power : the history of business / Howard Means ; with a foreword by David Grubin.
- Title
- Money & power : the history of business / Howard Means ; with a foreword by David Grubin.
- Author
- Means, Howard B.
- Publication
- New York : Wiley, c2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HG172.A3 M33 2001 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiii, 274 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Explores the relationship between money and power from feudal Europe to the modern era.
- Uniform Title
- Money & power (Television program)
- Alternative Title
- Money and power
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Case studies
- Note
- A companion volume to the CNBC documentary, Money & power.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. St. Godric : God and profit -- 2. Cosimo de'Medici : putting money to work -- 3. Philip II : wealth without wisdom -- 4. Tulipmania : sharing the greed -- 5. James Watt and Matthew Boulton : turning evolution into revolution -- 6. The transcontinental railroad : rogues and visionaries -- 7. J. Pierpont Morgan : the American colossus -- 8. John D. Rockefeller : organizing the octopus -- 9. Henry Ford : building cars and the markets for them -- 10. Robert Woodruff : the brand's the thing -- 11. Time Warner : turning opposite cultures to common advantage -- 12. Bill Gates and cyberspace : the dematerialized future.
- ISBN
- 047140053X (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2001017836
- OCLC
- 45883998
- SCSB-12063343
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library