ABSTRACT

"This is a story about stories and specifically about some of the stories that Americans have told themselves about corporate economic power." In this book, Anne Mayhew focuses on the stories surrounding the creation of Standard Oil and Wal-Mart and their founders , John D. Rockefeller and Sam Walton, combining the accounts of economists with the s

chapter 1|10 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|19 pages

The agreed upon stories

chapter 3|30 pages

Popular accounts and wider contexts

chapter 4|19 pages

Economists, trusts, and big business

chapter 5|25 pages

Alternative stories

chapter 6|28 pages

Supply chains and M→C→C´→M´

chapter 7|17 pages

Toward relevance