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Volume 64 - Winter 1990

Book Reviews

New and Improved: The Story of Mass Marketing in America. ByRichard S. Tedlow · New York: Basic Books, 1990. xi + 481 pp. Charts, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95.

Wrong Number: The Breakup of AT&T. ByAlan Stone · New York: Basic Books, 1989. xi + 381 pp. Notes and index. $21.95.

Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women. ByClaudia Goldin · New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. xi + 287 pp. Charts, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, references, and index. $29.95.

From Monopoly to Competition: The Transformations of Alcoa, 1888–1986. ByGeorge David Smith · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xxxiv + 554 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $29.95.

The Corporate State and the Broker State: The Du Ponts and American National Politics, 1925–1940. ByRobert F. Burk · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990. xi + 359 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $35.00.

American Popular Music and Its Business: The First Four Hundred Years. ByRussell Sanjek · New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. xvi + 469 pp.; vi + 482 pp.; vi + 734 pp. Bibliography and index. Vols. 1 and 2, $45.00 each; vol. 3, $59.00.

Reinventing the Wheels: Ford's Spectacular Comeback. ByAlton F. Doody and Ron Bingaman · New York: Perennial Library of HarperCollins, 1990. xv + 136 pp. Paper, $8.95.

Growth in a Changing Environment: A History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) 1950-1972 and Exxon Corporation 1972–1975. ByBennett H. Wall · New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988. xlv + 1020 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, and index. $39.50.

The Generous Corporation: A Political Analysis of Economic Power. ByNeil J. Mitchell · New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1989. x + 163 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $18.50.

Liberty, Property, and Government: Constitutional Interpretation before the New Deal. Edited byEllen Frankel Paul and Howard Dickman · Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989. vii + 303 pp. Notes, contributors, and index. Cloth, $57.50; paper, $18.95.

When the Machine Stopped: A Cautionary Tale from Industrial America. ByMax Holland · Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 1989. xiii + 335 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography & sources, and index. $22.95.

Henry J. Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West. ByMark S. Foster · Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989. xiv + 558 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographic note, and index. $29.95.

The Political Economy of Regulation: The Case of Insurance. ByKenneth J. Meier · Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988. xviii + 230 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, and index. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $14.95.

Productivity and U.S. Economic Growth. ByDale W. Jorgenson, Frank M. Gollop, and Barbara M. Fraumeni · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988. 567 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, references, and index. $32.00.

Power, Protection, and Free Trade: International Sources of U.S. Commercial Strategy, 1887–1939. ByDavid A. Lake · Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1988. xi + 242 pp. Charts, tables, appendix, notes, and index. $29.95.

Up Another Notch: Institution Building at Mead. ByWilliam H. A. Carr · New York: McGraw Hill Publishing Company, 1989. ix + 228 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, and index. $24.95.

The Transformation of Corporate Control. ByNeil Fligstein · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990. viii + 391 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00.

The New Money Masters: Winning Investment Strategies of Soros, Lynch, Steinhardt, Rogers, Neff, Wanger, Michaelis, Carret. ByJohn Train · New York: Edward Burlingame Books, HarperCollins, 1989. xi + 385 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, and index. $22.50.

Frederick Taylor and the Public Administration Community: A Reevaluation. ByHindy Lauer Schachter · Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989. x + 175 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $39.50; paper, $12.95.

The History of Foreign Direct Investment in the United States to 1914. ByMirn Wilkins · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989. xxiii + 1055 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00.

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