Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. Business History and Recent Economic Theory: Imperfect Information, Incentives, and the Internal Organization of Firms 7
5. 2. Managing by Remote Control: Recent Management Accounting Practice in Historical Perspective 41
6. 3. The Use of Cost Measures: The Dow Chemical Company, 1890-1914 71
7. 4. Investing in Information: Supply and Demand Forces in the Use of Information in American Firms, 1850-1920 117
8. 5. Information Problems and Banks’ Specialization in Short- Term Commercial Lending: New England in the Nineteenth Century 161
9. 6. Did J. P. Morgan’s Men Add Value? An Economist’s Perspective on Financial Capitalism 205
10. Contributors 251
11. Name Index 253
12. Subject Index 257