Richard Langlois on the Cultural and Economic History of Modern American Business
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In this episode, Andrew talks to Richard Langlois, author of The Corporation and The Twentieth Century, about the cultural and economic history of the modern American business enterprise.
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Richard N. Langlois is professor of economics at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Firms, Markets, and Economic Change: A Dynamic Theory of Business Institutions (with Paul L. Robertson); The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism: Schumpeter, Chandler, and the New Economy, which won the Schumpeter Prize of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society; and other books.
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