Lamoreaux, Naomi R.; Raff, Daniel M. G.; Temin, Peter - 2021
We sketch a new synthesis of American business history to replace (and subsume) that put forward by Alfred D. Chandler …, Jr., most famously in his book The Visible Hand (1977). We see the broader subject as the history of the institutions of … but characteristic of the field, to see history of adoption in teleological rather than evolutionary perspective. We see a …