For profit : a history of corporations / William Magnuson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Magnuson, William J., 1982- author.

Contributor:

Lippincott Library Book Endowment Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporations--History.

Corporations.

Profit--History.

Profit.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vii, 357 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, 2022.

Summary:

"A history of how corporate innovation has shaped society, from ancient Rome to Silicon Valley. Americans have long been skeptical of corporations, and that skepticism has only grown more intense in recent year. Meanwhile, corporations continue to amass wealth and power at a dizzying rate, recklessly pursuing profit while leaving society to sort out the costs. In For Profit, law professor William Magnuson argues that the story of the corporation didn't have to come to this. Throughout history, he finds, corporations have been purpose-built to benefit the societies that surrounded them. Corporations enabled everything from the construction of ancient Rome's roads and aqueducts to the artistic flourishing of the Renaissance to the rise of the middle class in the twentieth century. By recapturing this original spirit of civic virtue, Magnuson argues, corporations can help craft a society in which all of us--not just shareholders--benefit from the profits of enterprise"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Corpus economicus

The bank

The stock

The monopoly

The assembly line

The multinational

The raider

The start-up.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lippincott Library Book Endowment Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781541601567

1541601564

OCLC:

1303672820