000			02176cam a22004094a 4500
003			OCoLC
005			20251028092037.0
008			040213s2003 nyu b 001 0 eng
001			ocm50129318
010			_a 2002026429
020			_a0679642498
035			_a(Sirsi) i9780679642497
035			_a(Sirsi) i9780679642497
035			_a(Sirsi) i9780679642497
035			_z(Sirsi) 129361
040			_aDLC _cDLC _dC#P _dWSL _dVF$
042			_apcc
050	0	0	_aHD 2721 _b.M45 2003
090			_aHD 2721 .M45 2003
100	1		_aMicklethwait, John.
245	1	4	_aThe company : _ba short history of a revolutionary idea / _cJohn Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge.
250			_a2003 Modern library ed.
260			_aNew York : _bModern Library, _c2003.
300			_axxiii, 227 p. ; _c20 cm.
440		0	_aModern Library chronicles
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [199]-212) and index.
520			_aEconomist editors John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge reveal the company to be one of history's great catalysts, for good and for ill, a mighty engine for sucking in, recombining, and pumping out money, goods, people, and culture to every corner of the globe. What other earthly invention has the power to grow to any size, and to live to any age? What else could have given us both the stock market and the British Empire? The company man, the company town, and company time? Disneyfication and McDonald'sization, to say nothing of Coca-colonialism? Through its many mutations, the company has always incited controversy, and governments have always fought to rein it in. Today, though Marx may spin in his grave and anarchists riot in the streets, the company exercises an unparalleled influence on the globe, and understanding what this creature is and where it comes from has never been a more pressing matter.
650		0	_aBusiness _xHistory.
650		0	_aCorporations _xHistory.
650		0	_aIncorporation _xHistory.
650		0	_aBusiness enterprises _xHistory.
650		0	_aEntrepreneurship _xHistory.
650		0	_aCommerce _xHistory.
650		0	_aEconomic history.
700	1		_aWooldridge, Adrian.
999			_c91945 _d91945