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Creating Modern Capitalism

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

Thomas K. McCraw

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$50.00 • £43.95 • €45.95

ISBN 9780674175563

Publication Date: 01/02/1998

760 pages

36 halftones, 27 line illustrations, 6 maps, 90 tables

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Thomas K. McCraw was Straus Professor of Business History, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History.

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