Merchants, Money, and Power
Author : E. Kimbark MacColl
Publisher :
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 19,56 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780960340842
Author : E. Kimbark MacColl
Publisher :
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 19,56 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780960340842
Author : E. Kimbark MacColl
Publisher :
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 50,13 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Peter Spufford
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,51 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780500285947
Newly available in paperback, this is a wonderfully readable account of the role of merchants and money in the medieval world. Professor Spufford, who has made a lifelong study of the subject, brings together a vast amount of material from archives all over the world to build up this important economic history of the origins of capitalism essential reading for the scholar, but also engaging and entertaining to the layman.
Author : John F. Wasik
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1250089123
A timely rags-to-riches story, The Merchant of Power recounts how Sam Insull--right hand to Thomas Edison--went on to become one of the richest men in the world, pivotal in the birth of General Electric and instrumental in the creation of the modern metropolis with his invention of the power grid, which still fuels major cities today. John Wasik, awarded the National Press Club Award for Consumer Journalism, had unprecedented access to Sam Insull's archives, which include private correspondence with Thomas Edison. The extraordinary fall of a man extraordinary for his time is revealed in this cautionary tale about the excesses of corporate power.
Author : Terry Felber
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 27,36 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0849948525
Terry Felber has written a parable that will transform your life and your business. Many years ago, this book helped Dave Ramsey rediscover the marketplace as a mission field--and merchants as ministers. Now let it open your eyes to the opportunities for service and leadership all around you.
Author : Dan Morgan
Publisher : Backinprint.com
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,2 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780595142101
The first and only book to describe the seven secretive families and five far-flung companies that control the world's food supplies. Little has changed their central role since Morgan's best-selling book first appeared in 1979.
Author : Orville Schell
Publisher :
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 43,36 MB
Release : 2013
Category : China
ISBN : 0679643478
Two leading experts on China evaluate its rise throughout the past one hundred fifty years, sharing portraits of key intellectual and political leaders to explain how China transformed from a country under foreign assault to a world giant.
Author : Irving Fisher
Publisher :
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 21,29 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Money
ISBN :
Author : Robert Brenner
Publisher : Verso
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 44,27 MB
Release : 2003-08-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781859843338
A major reinterpretation of the transformation of English commerce in the century after 1550.
Author : Tim Wu
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 49,54 MB
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0385352026
From the author of the award-winning The Master Switch, who coined the term "net neutrality”—a revelatory, ambitious and urgent account of how the capture and re-sale of human attention became the defining industry of our time. "Dazzling." —Financial Times Ours is often called an information economy, but at a moment when access to information is virtually unlimited, our attention has become the ultimate commodity. In nearly every moment of our waking lives, we face a barrage of efforts to harvest our attention. This condition is not simply the byproduct of recent technological innovations but the result of more than a century's growth and expansion in the industries that feed on human attention. Wu’s narrative begins in the nineteenth century, when Benjamin Day discovered he could get rich selling newspapers for a penny. Since then, every new medium—from radio to television to Internet companies such as Google and Facebook—has attained commercial viability and immense riches by turning itself into an advertising platform. Since the early days, the basic business model of “attention merchants” has never changed: free diversion in exchange for a moment of your time, sold in turn to the highest-bidding advertiser. Full of lively, unexpected storytelling and piercing insight, The Attention Merchants lays bare the true nature of a ubiquitous reality we can no longer afford to accept at face value.