Inside the Business Enterprise: Historical Perspectives on the Use of Information
Peter Temin, editor
Conference held October 26-27, 1990
Published in January 1991 by University of Chicago Press, 1991
© 1991 by the National Bureau of Economic Research
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260 pp. pages
ISBN: 0-226-79202-1
Table of Contents
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Front matter to "Inside the Business Enterprise: Historical Perspectives on the Use of Information":
(p. -9 - 0)
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Introduction to "Inside the Business Enterprise: Historical Perspectives on the Use of Information":
Peter Temin
(p. 1 - 6)
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Business History and Recent Economic Theory: Imperfect Information, Incentives, and the Internal Organization of Firms:
Daniel Raff, Peter Temin
(p. 7 - 40)
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Managing by Remote Control: Recent Management Accounting Practice in Historical Perspective:
H. Thomas Johnson
(p. 41 - 70)
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The Use of Cost Measures: The Dow Chemical Company, 1890-1914:
Margaret Levenstein
(p. 71 - 116)
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Investing in Information: Supply and Demand Forces in the Use of Information in American Firms, 1850-1920:
JoAnne Yates
(p. 117 - 160)
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Information Problems and Banks' Specialization in Short-Term Commercial Lending: New England in the Nineteenth Century:
Naomi R. Lamoreaux
(p. 161 - 204)
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Did J. P. Morgan’s Men Add Value? An Economist's Perspective on Financial Capitalism:
J. Bradford DeLong
(p. 205 - 250)
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Contributors:
(p. 251 - 252)
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Name Index:
(p. 253 - 256)
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Subject Index:
(p. 257 - 260)
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