Creating Modern Capitalism

How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions

Thomas K. McCraw

    Introduction
    Thomas K. McCraw


    Josiah Wedgwood and the First Industrial Revolution
    Nancy F. Koehn


    British Capitalism and the Three Industrial Revolutions
    Peter Botticelli


    Rolls-Royce and the Rise of High-Technology Industry
    Peter Botticelli


    German Capitalism
    Jeffrey Fear


    August Thyssen and German Steel
    Jeffrey Fear


    The Deutsche Bank
    David A. Moss


    Henry Ford, Alfred Sloan, and the Three Phases of Marketing
    Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow


    American Capitalism
    Thomas K. McCraw


    IBM and the Two Thomas J. Watsons
    Rowena Olegario


    Toyoda Automatic Looms and Toyota Automobiles
    Jeffrey R. Bernstein


    Japanese Capitalism
    Jeffrey R. Bernstein


    7-Eleven in America and Japan
    Jeffrey R. Bernstein


    Retrospect and Prospect
    Thomas K. McCraw

    Appendix

    Notes

    Index

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Thomas K. McCraw is Straus Professor of Business History Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. His book Prophets of Regulation was awarded the 1985 Pulitzer Prize in history.