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Wednesday,
August 28 |
Housekeeping & Introductions |
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Wednesday,
September 4
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Reading:
Axtell, James. "The First Consumer Revolution." Chap. 5 in Beyond 1492: Encounters in Colonial North America (New York: Oxford University Press), 125-51.
Pauline Maier, “The Revolutionary Origins of the American Corporation,” William and Mary Quarterly 1993 50(1): 51-84 (JSTOR)
“An Economic Interpretation Of The American Revolution,” Mark Egnal and Joseph Ernst (Whaples & Betts)
McGuire, Robert A. and Ohsfeldt, Robert L., “Economic Interests And The American Constitution: A Quantitative Rehabilitation Of Charles A. Beard,” Journal of Economic History 1984 44(2): 509-519. (JSTOR)
“The Market And Massachusetts Farmers 1750-1855,” Winifred Rothenberg (Whaples & Betts)
Naomi R. Lamoreaux, “Banks, Kinship, and Economic Development: The New England Case,” Journal of Economic History, 1986 46(3): 647-667 (JSTOR) |
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Wednesday,
September 11
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Reading:
Peter Temin, The Jacksonian Economy
“The Rise And Fall Of Indentured Servitude In The Americas: An Economic Analysis,” David Galenson (Whaples & Betts)
“The Anatomy Of Exploitation,” Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman (Whaples & Betts)
“Slavery: The Progressive Institution?” Paul David and Peter Temin (Whaples & Betts)
“Explaining The Relative Efficiency Of Slave Agriculture In The Antebellum South,” Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman (Whaples & Betts)
“The Trap Of Debt Peonage,” Roger Ranso and Richard Sutch (Whaples & Betts)
“The Economic Revolution In The American South” Gavin Wright (Whaples & Betts) |
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Wednesday,
September 18
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Reading:
Glenn Porter & Harold Livesay, Merchants and Manufacturers: Studies in the Changing Structure of Nineteenth Century Marketing
“The Railroads: The First Modern Business Enterprises, 1850s-1860s,” Alfred Chandler (Whaples & Betts)
“Notes On The Social Savings Controversy,” Robert Fogel (Whaples & Betts)
“Industrial Structure And The Emergence Of The Modern Industrial Corporation,” Jeremy Atack (Whaples & Betts)
“The Origins Of American Industrial Success, 1879-1940,” Gavin Wright (Whaples & Betts)
“Federal Policy, Banking Market Structure, and Capital Mobilization in The United States, 1863-1913,” Richard Sylla (Whaples & Betts) |
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Wednesday,
September 25
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Reading:
Alfred Chandler, The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
“A Reappraisal Of The Causes Of Farm Protest In The United States, 1870-1900,” Anne Mayhew (Whaples & Betts)
“The ‘Wizard Of Oz’ As A Monetary Allegory,” Hugh Rockoff (Whaples & Betts)
PAPER TOPIC DUE |
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Wednesday,
October 2
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Reading:
Philip Scranton, Endless Novelty |
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Wednesday,
October 9
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Reading:
Richard Tedlow, New and Improved: the Story of Mass Marketing in America
Susan Strasser, Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market |
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Wednesday,
October 16
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Viewing:
Wall Street (1987)
Boiler Room (2000)
Other People’s Money (1991)
Rogue Trader (1998)
Barbarians at the Gate (1993)
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) |
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Wednesday,
October 23
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Reading:
Gretchen Ritter, Goldbugs and Greenbacks: The Antimonopoly Tradition and the Politics of Finance, 1865-1896
Edward Chase Kirkland, Dream and Thought in the Business Community |
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Wednesday,
October 30
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Reading:
“The Changing Economic Role Of Women: A Quantitative Approach,” Claudia Goldin (Whaples & Betts)
“Factors Accounting For Changes In The Stock Of Money,” Milton Friedman and Anna Schwarz (Whaples & Betts)
“The Fall In The Demand For Money,” Peter Temin (Whaples & Betts)
Higgs, “Wartime Prosperity?: A Reassessment of the U.S. Economy in the 1940s,” Journal of Economic History 52 (March 1992): 41-60. (JSTOR)
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE |
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Wednesday,
November 6
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Reading:
Roland Marchand, Creating the Corporate Soul: The Rise of Public Relations and Corporate Imagery in American Big Business |
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Wednesday,
November 13
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Reading:
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., “The Competitive Performance of U.S. Industrial Enterprises since the Second World War,” Business History Review, 68 (Spring 1994), pp. 1-72.
Bronwyn H. Hall, “Corporate Restructuring and Investment Horizons in the United States, 1976-1987,” Business History Review, 68 (Spring 1994), pp. 110-43.
Harvey H. Segal, Corporate Makeover: How American Business is Reshaping for the Future, pp. 1-21 and 121-59.
Michael C. Jensen, “Eclipse of the Public Corporation,” Harvard Business Review, 67 (Sept.-Oct. 1989), pp. 61-74. |
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Wednesday,
November 20
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Reading:
Ken Auletta, World War 3.0: Microsoft Vs. the U.S. Government, and the Battle to Rule the Digital Age
FIRST DRAFT DUE |
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Wednesday,
November 20
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THANKSGIVING BREAK-NO CLASS
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Wednesday,
December 4
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Reading:
Stuart Leslie and Robert Kargon, “Selling Silicon Valley,” Business History Review 70(1996)
Paul A. David, “The Dynamo and the Computer,” American Economic Review 80 (May 1990)
Michael Lewis, Next: The Future Just Happened
StartUp.Com (2001) |
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Wednesday,
December 4
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FINAL PAPER DUE
SELF-EVALUATION DUE |
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