before there were “managers”…

Book review:

The Visible Hand:

The Managerial Revolution in American Business

by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. (1918-2007)

Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1977

608 pages

A densely researched and densely written history of the evolving American environment for various forms of capitalism and the appearance in the middle of the 19th century of “managers” who didn’t own the business or do the work.

You’ll learn some stuff about commercial, entrepreneurial, financial, and managerial capitalism.

This is an academic treatment of the good, the bad, and the ugly in the history of American corporate structure and performance. Chandler rarely refers to the political and moral aspects of the good works, the charlatanry, and the grossly criminal actions of the movers and shakers in the 19th century and early 20th century business world.

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Book review: Saint Joan

by George Bernard Shaw

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