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The road ahead
The Evolution of Corporations in America: Twenty-Five Essays
This series follows the corporation from a scarce privilege granted by government to one of the most powerful institutions in American life. The order may change as the research develops, but this is the road ahead.
- The Bubble Act of 1720Published
- The East India Company and the Boston Tea PartyPublished
- Corporations on a Short Leash
- Dartmouth College and the Transformation of the Corporate Charter
- Jacksonian Democracy and the Fear of Monopoly
- The Railroad Corporation
- The Grangers, the Railroads, and Businesses “Affected with a Public Interest”
- The Trusts Before the Sherman Act
- Santa Clara County and the Corporate Person
- The Sherman Act of 1890
- New Jersey, Delaware, and the Competition for Corporate Charters
- The Great Merger Movement and the Creation of U.S. Steel
- The Populists and the Revolt Against Concentrated Wealth
- Muckrakers, Journalism, and the Progressive Response
- William Allen White and the View from Main Street
- Roosevelt, Wilson, and the Election of 1912
- The Rule of Reason
- “Mere Size Is No Offense”: The U.S. Steel Case
- The Clayton Act and the Federal Trade Commission
- The Chain-Store Revolution: A&P and the Nation of Clerks
- Berle and Means and the Corporation Without an Owner
- Brandeis and the Curse of Bigness
- Business and Dictatorship: German Industry from Accommodation to Complicity
- Brandeis Was Not Alone: Hand, Douglas, and the Continuing Case Against Bigness
- When Everyone Became a Shareholder—and Almost No One Became an Owner