Narrating the Rise of Big Business in the USA: How economists explain standard oil and Wal-Mart

by Anne Mayhew

"This is a story about stories and specifically about some of the stories that Americans have told themselves about corporate economic power." In this book, Anne Mayhew focuses on the stories surrounding the creation of Standard Oil and Wal-Mart and their founders, John D. Rockefeller and Sam Walton, combining the accounts of economists with the somewhat darker pictures painted by writers of fiction to tease out the overarching narratives associated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415775345
• ISBN13: 9780415775342
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"