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AuthorDobson, John M.TitleBulls, bears, boom, and bust : a historical encyclopedia of American business concepts / John Dobson.PublishedSanta Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2007.FormatBook
Biography, Autobiography
Descriptionxvi, 423 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

LinkTable of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0619/2006027499.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0668/2006027499-d.html
Variant titleHistorical encyclopedia of American business concepts
NotesIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Contents|Section 1 : Colonial America, 1607-1760 --| |Key concepts --| |Apprenticeship --| |Book credit --| |Bubble --| |Charter, Royal --| |Commodity money --| |Dollar --| |Enclosure --| |Factor --| |Fisheries --| |Fur trae --| |Guilds --| |Head rights --| |Indenture --| |Joint-stock Company --| |Lottery --| |Manufacturing Acts --| |Mercantilism --| |Molasses Act --| |Naval stores --| |Navigation Acts --| |Paper currency --| |Pine tree shilling --| |Plantation --| |proprietary colonies --| |Shipbuilding --| |Slavery --| |Staples --| |Tobacco --| |Trade balance --| |Triangular trade --| |Wage codes --| |Wall Street --| |Biographies --| |Byrd, William, II --| |Calvert, George --| |Franklin, Benjamin --| |Penn, William --| |Raleigh, Sir Walter --| |Rolfe, John --|
|Section 2 : The new nation, 1760-1860 --| |Key concepts --| |Abominations, Tarriff of --| |American system --| |Bank of the United States --| |Bank War --| |Banknotes --| |Canal era --| |Carrying trade --| |Charter, State --| |Checks --| |China market --| |Clipper ships --| |Continental currency --| |Corn law --| |Corporations --| |Cotton --| |Cotton factorage --| |Cotton gin --| |Dealership --| |Division of labor --| |Dollar, American --| |Embargo --| |Free banking --| |Gold Rush --| |Industrial Revolution --| |Integrated mill --| |Interchangeable parts --| |Interstate Commerce Clause --| |Japan, Opening of --| |Labor unions, Early --| |Laissez-faire --| |Land companies --| |McCulloch v. Maryland --| |Monopoly --| |New York Stock and Exchange Board --| |Nonimportation --| |packet ships --| |Panic of 1819 --| |Patent pool --| |Patents --| |Privateering --| |Protective tarriff --| |Public credit, Report on the --| |Railroads --| |Soft money --| |Specie circular --| |Stamp Act --| |Steamboats --| |Sugar Act --|
|Biographies --| |Adams, Samuel --| |Astopr, John Jacob --| |Belmont, August --| |Biddle, Nicholas --| |Borden, Gail --| |Clay, Henry --| |Colt, Samuel --| |Corning, Erastus --| |Deere, John --| |du Pont de Nemours, Eleuthere Irenee --| |Duer, William --| |Evans, Oliver --| |Fulton, Robert --| |Girard, Stephen --| |Goodyear, Charles --| |Hamilton, Alexander --| |Hancock, John --| |Howe, Elias --| |Jackson, Andrew --| |Flowell, Francis Cabot --| |McCormick, Cyrus Hall --| |Morse, Samuel Finley Breese --| |Otis, Elisha Graves --| |Remington, Philo --| |Singer, Isaac Merritt --| |Slater, Samuel --| |Smith, Adam --| |Strauss, Levi --| |Symmes, John Cleves --| |Thomas, Seth --| |Vanderbilt, Cornelius --| |Whitney, Eli --| |Winchester, Oliver Fisher --|
|Section 3 : Industrializing America, 1860-1900 --| |Key concepts --| |American Federation of Labor --| |Antiturst laws --| |Bonanza farms --| |Boycott --| |Bulls and bears --| |Catalog sales --| |Chain stores --| |Credit mobilier --| |Crop lien --| |Department store --| |E.C. Knight and Co. Case --| |Electric car --| |Electric power --| |Free list --| |Free silver --| |General incorporation laws --| |Gold corner --| |Greenbacks --| |Horizontal integration --| |Interstate Commerce Commission --| |Knights of Labor --| |Land grant railroads --| |National bank notes --| |National labor union --| |Office appliances --| |Oligopoly --| |Panic of 1873 --| |Panic of 1893 --| |Pool --| |Pullman Strike --| |Railroad consolidation --| |Rebates --| |Sharecropping --| |Shinplasters --| |Shopping --| |Single tax --| |Social Darwinism --| |Tabulating --| |Trademarks --| |Trust --| |Vertical integration --| |Watered stock --|
|Biographies --| |Armour, Philip Danforth --| |Ayer, Francis Wayland --| |Bell, Alexander Graham --| |Burroughs, William Seward --| |Busch, Adolphus --| |Carnegie, Andrew --| |Cooke, Jay --| |Coors, Adolph --| |Depew, Chauncey Mitchell --| |Dodd, Samuel Calvin Tate --| |Duke, James Buchanan --| |Eastman, George --| |Edison, Thomas Alva --| |Frick, Henry Clay --| |Gompers, Samuel --| |Gould, Jay --| |Grace, William Russell --| |Harriman, Edward Henry --| |Hearst, William Randolph --| |Heinz, Henry John --| |Hollerith, Herman --| |Macy, Rowland Hussey (R.H.) --| |Patterson, John Henry --| |Penney, James Cash (J.C.) --| |Pillsbury, Charles Alfred --| |Pulitzer, Joseph --| |Pullman, George Mortimore --| |Rockefeller, John Davison --| |Scott, Thomas Alexander --| |Sears, Richard Warren (R.W.) --| |Sherman, John --| |Sprague, Frank Julian --| |Stanford, Leland --| |Stewart, Alexander Turney (A.T.) --| |Swift, Gustavus Franklin --| |Thompson, James Walter --| |Wanamaker, John --| |Ward, Aaron Montgomery --| |Westinghouse, George --| |Whitney, Willaim Collins --| |Woolworth, Frank Winfield (F.W.) --|
|Section 4 : Boom and bust, 1900-1940 --| |Key concepts --| |Agricultural Adjustment Acts --| |Associationalism --| |Autarky --| |Bank holiday --| |Billion dollar corporation --| |Bracketing the market --| |Brand management --| |Brokers’ loans --| |Built-in obsolescence --| |Bull market --| |Business cycles --| |Call loans --| |Clayton Antitrust Act --| |Commercial aviation --| |Commodity dollar --| |Consumer credit --| |Crash --| |Creditor nation --| |Dawes Plan --| |Deficit spending --| |Federal Reserve System, Creation of --| |Federal Reserve System, Reform of --| |Federal Trade Commission --| |Florida land bubble --| |Great Depression, Causes of --| |Great Depression, Character of --| |Holding company --| |Induced scarcity --| |Interstate Commerce Commission, Reform of --| |Just price --| |Keynesian economics --| |Leveraged investment trust --| |Money supply --| |Movies --| |Moving assembly line --| |Muckrakers --| |Northern Securities Co. Case --| |Open market operations --| |Parcel delivery --| |Parity --| |Ponzi scheme --| |Preferred list --| |Product differentiation --| |Pujo Committee (money trust) --| |Radio --| |Reciprocity --| |Reconstruction finance corporation --| |Recovery --| |Relief --| |Rule of reason --| |Scientific management --| |Securities and Exchange Commission --| |Selden patent --| |Standardization --| |Underconsumption --| |War industries Board --|
|Biographies --| |Aldrich, Nelson Wilmarth --| |Arden, Elizabeth --| |Baruch, Bernard Mannes --| |Birdseye, Clarence --| |Boeing, William Edward --| |Carrier, Willis Haviland --| |Chrysler, Walter Percy --| |Disney, Walter Elias --| |Dodge, John Francis and Horace Elgin Dodge --| |du Pnt, Pierre Samuel --| |Ford, Henry --| |Gary, Elbert Henry --| |Giannini, Amadeo Peter (A.P.) --| |Hershey, Milton Snavely --| |Hill, James Jerome (J.J.) --| |Hilton, Conrad Nichcolson --| |Hughes, Howard Robard --| |Insull, Samuel --| |Johnson, Howard Deering --| |Johnson, Hugh --| |Kellogg, John Harvey --| |Knox, Rose --| |Land, Edwin Herbert --| |Mayer, Louis Burt --| |Maytag, Frederick --| |Mellon, Andrew William --| |Mtichell, Wesley Clair --| |Morgan, John Pierpont (J.P.) --| |Olds, Ransom Eli --| |Paley, William Samuel --| |Phillips, Frank --| |Reynolds, Richard Joshua (R.J.) --| |Rubinstein, Helena --| |Rudkin, Margaret --| |Sarnoff, David --| |Sinclair, Harry Ford --| |Sloan, Alfred Pritchard, Jr. --| |Taylor, Juan --| |Trippe, Juan --| |Vail, Theodore Newton --| |Wallace, Henry Agard --| |Watson, Thomas J. --|
|Section 5 : Recent America, 1940 to the present --| |Key concepts --| |Adjustable rate mortgages --| |Arbitrage --| |Computers --| |Conglomerates --| |Credit cards --| |Deregulation --| |Electronic fund transfers --| |Franchises --| |Electronic fund transfers --| |Franchises --| |GATT --| |Golden parachute --| |Greenmail --| |Hostile takeovers --| |Junk Bonds --| |Leveraged buyout --| |Malls --| |marketing concept --| |Microchips --| |Military aviation --| |Military-industrial complex --| |Monetarism --| |Personal computers --| |Poison pill --| |Rationing --| |Saving and loan crisis --| |Stagflation --| |Stock options --| |Supply-side economics --| |Television --| |Transistors --| |Universal product code --| |Venture capital --| |White Knight --|
|Biographies --|Andersen, Aruthr --| |Ash, Mary Kay --| |Boesky, Ivan --| |Buffet, Warren Edward --| |Claiborne, Elisabeth --| |Douglas, Donald Wills --| |Forbes, Malcolm Stevenson --| |Gates, Bill --| |Geneen, Harold --| |Graham, Katharine --| |Hewlett, William Redington --| |Icahn, Carl --| |Jobs, Steven Paul --| |Johnson, John Harold --| |Kaiser, Henry John --| |Kilby, Jack --| |Kravis, Henry --| |Kresge, Sebastina Spering (S.S.) --| |Kroc, Ray --| |Lauder, Estee --| |Lauren, Ralph --| |Levitt, William Jaird --| |Ling, James J. --| |Milken, Michael Robert --| |Noyce, Robert --| |Olsen, Kenneth --| |Packard, David --| |Perdue, Frank --| |Perot, Henry Ross --| |Pickens, T. Boone --| |Revson, Charles --| |Schwab, Charles --| |Simon, Norton --| |Tandy, Charles --| |Turner, Ted --| |Wang, An --| |Appendix 1 : Key concepts and biographies by section --| |Appendix 2 : Key concepts by section and subject --| |Appendix 3 : Biographies by section and subject --| |Index.|
ISBN1851095535 (hard cover : alk. paper)9781851095537 (hard cover : alk. paper)SubjectBusiness enterprises -- United States -- History -- Encyclopedias.
Industries -- United States -- History -- Encyclopedias.
Businesspeople -- United States -- Biography.
Businesspeople -- United States -- History -- Encyclopedias.
United States -- Commerce -- History -- Encyclopedias.

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