70 research outputs found
Book Review: Brandeis and America. Edited by Nelson L. Dawson.
Book review: Brandeis and America. Edited by Nelson L. Dawson. Lexington, Ky: University Press of Kentucky. 1989. Pp. 163. Reviewed by: Thomas K. McCraw
Book Review: Brandeis and America. Edited by Nelson L. Dawson.
Book review: Brandeis and America. Edited by Nelson L. Dawson. Lexington, Ky: University Press of Kentucky. 1989. Pp. 163. Reviewed by: Thomas K. McCraw
Book Review: Brandeis and America. Edited by Nelson L. Dawson.
Book review: Brandeis and America. Edited by Nelson L. Dawson. Lexington, Ky: University Press of Kentucky. 1989. Pp. 163. Reviewed by: Thomas K. McCraw
The Antitrust Paradox: A Policy at War with Itself. By Robert H. Bork. New York, Basic Books, 1978. Pp. xi + 461. $18.00.
Enterprise Denied: Origins of the Decline of American Railroads, 1897β1917. By Albio Martin. New York, Columbia University Press, 1971. Pp. xiv + 402. $10.95.
The Governmental Habit: Economic Controls from Colonial Times to the Present. By Jonathan R. T. Hughes. New York, Basic Books, 1977. Pp. xii + 260. $11.95.
Toward a National Power Policy: The New Deal and the Electric Utility Industry, 1933β1941. By Philip J. Funigiello. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1973. Pp. xvii + 296. $12.95.
The Dynamics of Business-Government Relations: Industry and Exports, 1893β1921. By William H. Becker. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1982. Pp. xvi + 240. $20.00
Capitalist Collective Action: Competition, Cooperation, and Conflict in the Coal Industry. By John R. Bowman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xvii, 253. $37.50.
Immigrant Entrepreneurs in U.S. Financial History, 1775-1914
Throughout its history, the United States has been the beneficiary of a worldwide in-migration of entrepreneurial talent. This article surveys finance, one of the many sectors in which immigrants made a conspicuous impact. Part I demonstrates the dominant role of immigrants in forming public financial policies from 1775 to 1817. Part II surveys 12 merchant and investment banking firms founded during the nineteenth century by individual immigrants or family groups, and traces their histories until 1914. Part III suggests, from this small sample, a series of hypotheses and tentative conclusions about their experiences and influence. Part IV compares the financial environment of the nineteenth century with that of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The article ends with a supporting appendix that describes 19 additional immigrants or immigrant families and their firms.
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