Bulls, Bears, Boom, And Bust: A Historical Encyclopedia of American Business Concepts,9781851095537

Bulls, Bears, Boom, And Bust: A Historical Encyclopedia of American Business Concepts

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ISBN13: 9781851095537
ISBN10: 1851095535
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Pub. Date: 2006-10-01
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Summary

An intriguing collection of insider information on little known aspects of commonly used business techniques, instruments, policies, and personalities that influenced the rise of the world's most successful business system.

Table of Contents

Preface xv
Section 1 Colonial America, 1607--1760
Key Concepts
2(38)
Apprenticeship
2(1)
Book Credit
3(1)
Bubble
4(2)
Charter, Royal
6(2)
Commodity Money
8(1)
Dollar
9(1)
Enclosure
10(1)
Factor
10(1)
Fisheries
11(1)
Fur Trade
12(1)
Guilds
13(1)
Head Rights
14(2)
Indenture
16(2)
Joint-Stock Company
18(1)
Lottery
19(1)
Manufacturing Acts
20(1)
Mercantilism
21(2)
Molasses Act
23(1)
Naval Stores
23(1)
Navigation Acts
24(1)
Paper Currency
25(1)
Pine Tree Shilling
26(1)
Plantation
27(1)
Proprietary Colonies
28(4)
Shipbuilding
32(1)
Slavery
33(2)
Staples
35(1)
Tobacco
36(1)
Trade Balance
37(2)
Triangular Trade
39(1)
Wage Codes
39(1)
Wall Street
40(1)
Biographies
40(5)
Byrd, William, II
40(1)
Calvert, George
41(1)
Franklin, Benjamin
41(1)
Penn, William
42(1)
Raleigh, Sir Walter
42(1)
Rolfe, John
42(3)
Section 2 The New Nation, 1760--1860
45(90)
Key Concepts
47(74)
Abominations, Tariff of
47(1)
American System
48(1)
Bank of the United States
49(3)
Bank War
52(1)
Banknotes
53(2)
Canal Era
55(2)
Carrying Trade
57(2)
Charter, State
59(2)
Checks
61(1)
China Market
62(1)
Clipper Ships
63(1)
Continental Currency
64(1)
Corn Law
65(1)
Corporations
66(2)
Cotton
68(3)
Cotton Factorage
71(1)
Cotton Gin
72(1)
Dealership
73(1)
Division of Labor
74(1)
Dollar, American
75(2)
Embargo
77(2)
Free Banking
79(1)
Gold Rush
80(2)
Industrial Revolution
82(2)
Integrated Mill
84(1)
Interchangeable Parts
85(2)
Interstate Commerce Clause
87(2)
Japan, Opening of
89(1)
Labor Unions, Early
90(1)
Laissez-Faire
91(2)
Land Companies
93(2)
McCulloch v. Maryland
95(1)
Monopoly
96(2)
New York Stock and Exchange Board
98(1)
Nonimportation
99(2)
Packet Ships
101(1)
Panic of 1819
102(1)
Patent Pool
103(2)
Patents
105(1)
Privateering
106(1)
Protective Tariff
107(1)
Public Credit, Report on the
108(2)
Railroads
110(3)
Soft Money
113(1)
Specie Circular
114(2)
Stamp Act
116(2)
Steamboats
118(2)
Sugar Act
120(1)
Biographies
121(14)
Adams, Samuel
121(1)
Astor, John Jacob
121(1)
Belmont, August
122(1)
Biddle, Nicholas
122(1)
Borden, Gail
122(1)
Clay, Henry
123(1)
Colt, Samuel
123(1)
Corning, Erastus
123(1)
Deere, John
124(1)
du Pont de Nemours, Eleuthere Irenee
124(1)
Duer, William
125(1)
Evans, Oliver
125(1)
Fulton, Robert
125(1)
Girard, Stephen
126(1)
Goodyear, Charles
126(1)
Hamilton, Alexander
126(1)
Hancock, John
127(1)
Howe, Elias
127(1)
Jackson, Andrew
128(1)
Lowell, Francis Cabot
128(1)
McCormick, Cyrus Hall
129(1)
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese
129(1)
Otis, Elisha Graves
129(1)
Remington, Philo
130(1)
Singer, Isaac Merritt
130(1)
Slater, Samuel
130(1)
Smith, Adam
131(1)
Strauss, Levi
131(1)
Symmes, John Cleves
131(1)
Thomas, Seth
132(1)
Vanderbilt, Cornelius
132(1)
Whitney, Eli
133(1)
Winchester, Oliver Fisher
134(1)
Section 3 Industrializing America, 1860--1900
135(84)
Key Concepts
137(63)
American Federation of Labor
137(1)
Antitrust Laws
138(2)
Bonanza Farms
140(1)
Boycott
140(1)
Bulls and Bears
141(1)
Catalog Sales
142(2)
Chain Stores
144(2)
Credit Mobilier
146(1)
Crop Lien
147(1)
Department Store
148(2)
E. C. Knight and Co. Case
150(1)
Electric Car
151(1)
Electric Power
152(3)
Free List
155(1)
Free Silver
156(2)
General Incorporation Laws
158(2)
Gold Corner
160(1)
Greenbacks
161(2)
Horizontal Integration
163(3)
Interstate Commerce Commission
166(2)
Knights of Labor
168(1)
Land Grant Railroads
169(3)
National Bank Notes
172(2)
National Labor Union
174(1)
Office Appliances
175(1)
Oligopoly
176(2)
Panic of 1873
178(3)
Panic of 1893
181(1)
Pool
182(1)
Pullman Strike
183(2)
Railroad Consolidation
185(2)
Rebates
187(1)
Sharecropping
188(1)
Shinplasters
189(1)
Shopping
190(1)
Single Tax
191(1)
Social Darwinism
192(1)
Tabulating
193(2)
Trademarks
195(1)
Trust
196(1)
Vertical Integration
197(2)
Watered Stock
199(1)
Biographies
200(19)
Armour, Philip Danforth
200(1)
Ayer, Francis Wayland
200(1)
Bell, Alexander Graham
200(1)
Burroughs, William Seward
201(1)
Busch, Adolphus
201(1)
Carnegie, Andrew
202(1)
Cooke, Jay
202(1)
Coors, Adolph
202(1)
Depew, Chauncey Mitchell
203(1)
Dodd, Samuel Calvin Tate
203(1)
Duke, James Buchanan
204(1)
Eastman, George
204(1)
Edison, Thomas Alva
204(1)
Frick, Henry Clay
205(1)
Gompers, Samuel
205(1)
Gould, Jay
206(1)
Grace, William Russell
206(1)
Harriman, Edward Henry
207(1)
Hearst, William Randolph
207(1)
Heinz, Henry John
208(1)
Hollerith, Herman
208(1)
Macy, Rowland Hussey (R. H.)
208(1)
Patterson, John Henry
209(1)
Penney, James Cash (J. C.)
209(1)
Pillsbury, Charles Alfred
210(1)
Pulitzer, Joseph
210(1)
Pullman, George Mortimore
211(1)
Rockefeller, John Davidson
211(1)
Scott, Thomas Alexander
211(1)
Sears, Richard Warren (R. W.)
212(1)
Sherman, John
212(1)
Sprague, Frank Julian
213(1)
Stanford, Leland
213(1)
Stewart, Alexander Turney (A. T.)
213(1)
Swift, Gustavus Franklin
214(1)
Thompson, James Walter
214(1)
Wanamaker, John
215(1)
Ward, Aaron Montgomery
215(1)
Westinghouse, George
215(1)
Whitney, William Collins
216(1)
Woolworth, Frank Winfield (F. W.)
216(3)
Section 4 Boom and Bust, 1900--1940
219(108)
Key Concepts
221(86)
Agricultural Adjustment Acts
221(2)
Associationalism
223(2)
Autarky
225(1)
Bank Holiday
226(2)
Billion Dollar Corporation
228(2)
Bracketing the Market
230(1)
Brand Management
231(1)
Brokers' Loans
232(2)
Built-in Obsolescence
234(1)
Bull Market
234(4)
Business Cycles
238(2)
Call Loans
240(1)
Clayton Antitrust Act
241(1)
Commercial Aviation
242(1)
Commodity Dollar
243(1)
Consumer Credit
244(1)
Crash
245(4)
Creditor Nation
249(1)
Dawes Plan
250(1)
Deficit Spending
251(2)
Federal Reserve System, Creation of
253(3)
Federal Reserve System, Reform of
256(2)
Federal Trade Commission
258(2)
Florida Land Bubble
260(1)
Great Depression, Causes of
261(3)
Great Depression, Character of
264(3)
Holding Company
267(2)
Induced Scarcity
269(1)
Interstate Commerce Commission, Reform of
270(2)
Just Price
272(1)
Keynesian Economics
273(2)
Leveraged Investment Trust
275(1)
Money Supply
276(1)
Movies
277(2)
Moving Assembly Line
279(1)
Muckrakers
280(2)
Northern Securities Co. Case
282(2)
Open Market Operations
284(1)
Parcel Delivery
285(1)
Parity
285(2)
Ponzi Scheme
287(1)
Preferred List
287(1)
Product Differentiation
288(1)
Pujo Committee (Money Trust)
288(2)
Radio
290(1)
Reciprocity
291(2)
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
293(1)
Recovery
294(2)
Relief
296(2)
Rule of Reason
298(1)
Scientific Management
299(1)
Securities and Exchange Commission
300(2)
Selden Patent
302(1)
Standardization
303(1)
Underconsumption
304(1)
War Industries Board
305(2)
Biographies
307(20)
Aldrich, Nelson Wilmarth
307(1)
Arden, Elizabeth
307(1)
Baruch, Bernard Mannes
308(1)
Birdseye, Clarence
308(1)
Boeing, William Edward
309(1)
Carrier, Willis Haviland
309(1)
Chrysler, Walter Percy
309(1)
Disney, Walter Elias
310(1)
Dodge, John Francis and Horace Elgin Dodge
310(1)
du Pont, Pierre Samuel
311(1)
Durant, William Crapo
311(1)
Firestone, Harvey Samuel
312(1)
Ford, Henry
312(1)
Gary, Elbert Henry
313(1)
Giannini, Amadeo Peter (A. P.)
314(1)
Hershey, Milton Snavely
314(1)
Hill, James Jerome (J. J.)
314(1)
Hilton, Conrad Nicholson
315(1)
Hughes, Howard Robard
315(1)
Insull, Samuel
316(1)
Johnson, Howard Deering
316(1)
Johnson, Hugh
316(1)
Kellogg, John Harvey
317(1)
Knox, Rose
317(1)
Land, Edwin Herbert
317(1)
Mayer, Louis Burt
318(1)
Maytag, Frederick
318(1)
Mellon, Andrew William
318(1)
Mitchell, Wesley Clair
319(1)
Morgan, John Pierpont (J. P.)
319(1)
Olds, Ransom Eli
320(1)
Paley, William Samuel
320(1)
Phillips, Frank
321(1)
Reynolds, Richard Joshua (R. J.)
321(1)
Rubinstein, Helena
321(1)
Rudkin, Margaret
322(1)
Sarnoff, David
322(1)
Sinclair, Harry Ford
323(1)
Sloan, Alfred Pritchard, Jr.
324(1)
Taylor, Frederick Winslow
324(1)
Trippe, Juan
324(1)
Vail, Theodore Newton
325(1)
Wallace, Henry Agard
325(1)
Watson, Thomas J.
326(1)
Section 5 Recent America, 1940 to the Present
327(64)
Key Concepts
328(45)
Adjustable Rate Mortgages
328(1)
Arbitrage
329(1)
Computers
330(2)
Conglomerates
332(2)
Credit Cards
334(2)
Deregulation
336(1)
Electronic Fund Transfers
337(1)
Franchises
338(2)
GATT
340(1)
Golden Parachute
341(1)
Greenmail
342(1)
Hostile Takeovers
343(2)
Junk Bonds
345(1)
Leveraged Buyout
346(2)
Malls
348(1)
Marketing Concept
349(1)
Microchips
350(2)
Military Aviation
352(1)
Military-Industrial Complex
353(2)
Monetarism
355(1)
Personal Computers
356(2)
Poison Pill
358(1)
Rationing
359(1)
Saving and Loan Crisis
360(2)
Stagflation
362(1)
Stock Options
363(2)
Supply-Side Economics
365(2)
Television
367(1)
Transistors
368(1)
Universal Product Code
369(1)
Venture Capital
370(2)
White Knight
372(1)
Biographies
373(18)
Andersen, Arthur
373(1)
Ash, Mary Kay
374(1)
Boesky, Ivan
374(1)
Buffet, Warren Edward
374(1)
Claiborne, Elisabeth
375(1)
Douglas, Donald Wills
375(1)
Forbes, Malcolm Stevenson
376(1)
Gates, Bill
376(1)
Geneen, Harold
377(1)
Graham, Katharine
377(1)
Hewlett, William Redington
378(1)
Icahn, Carl
379(1)
Jobs, Steven Paul
379(1)
Johnson, John Harold
380(1)
Kaiser, Henry John
380(1)
Kilby, Jack
381(1)
Kravis, Henry
381(1)
Kresge, Sebastian Spering (S. S.)
382(1)
Kroc, Ray
382(1)
Lauder, Estee
382(1)
Lauren, Ralph
383(1)
Levitt, William Jaird
383(1)
Ling, James J.
384(1)
Milken, Michael Robert
384(1)
Noyce, Robert
385(1)
Olsen, Kenneth
385(1)
Packard, David
385(1)
Perdue, Frank
386(1)
Perot, Henry Ross
386(1)
Pickens, T. Boone
387(1)
Revson, Charles
387(1)
Schwab, Charles
388(1)
Simon, Norton
388(1)
Tandy, Charles
389(1)
Turner, Ted
389(1)
Wang, An
389(2)
Appendix 1: Key Concepts and Biographies by Section 391(6)
Appendix 2: Key Concepts by Section and Subject 397(4)
Appendix 3: Biographies by Section and Subject 401(4)
Index 405

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