Few developments in the world economy over the past century have
been more controversial than the rise of big business and
multinational enterprise. The activities of giant firms like
general motors, Royal Dutch-Shell and Siemens seem to have
increasingly dominated international economic relations and the
individual economies in which they operate. Under attack from
liberals as a threat to the competitive market and from Marxists as
a devious regeneration of capitalism, a more balanced understanding
of giant corporations has slowly emerged from the work of
economists and business historians. Christopher J. Schmitz provides
a brief survey of the nature and spread of big business in the
United States and western Europe between the 1850s and World War
II. He offers the non-specialist reader a critical guide to the
massive outpouring of literature generated in this field. This
study also assesses key theoretical approaches to the development
of big business and managerial capitalism during their formative
years. It concludes that desire to gain monopoly profit from
controlled markets is an insufficient explanation of the larger
part of past business concentration.
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