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For Profit: A History of Corporations 

byWilliam Magnuson

A history of how corporate innovation has shaped society, from ancient Rome to Silicon Valley From legacy manufacturers to emerging tech giants, corporations wield significant power over our lives, our economy, and our politics. For Profit combines archival evidence, political analysis, and reconstructed events, allowing the evidence to complicate easy judgments and familiar explanations. Seen through the lens of business & economics and history, For Profit explains not only what happened, but why competing interpretations still matter. By the end, the history of corporations emerges as a layered story of competing motives, unintended results, and choices made under pressure.

Publisher

Basic Books

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9781541601567