ABSTRACT
This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research selected by expert series editors and contextualised by new analysis from each author on how the specific field addressed has evolved.
The book features contributions on the history of government-business relations, regional and local business relationships, the development and formation of Silicon Valley, and the rise and fall of the US machine tool industry after the Second World.
Of interest to business and economic historians, this shortform book also provides analysis that will be valuable reading across the social sciences.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter Chapter 1|30 pages
Trying to keep the customers stratified
Government, business, and the paths of innovation in American railroading and computing
chapter Chapter 2|35 pages
Webs of productive association in American industrialization
Patterns of institution-formation and their limits, Philadelphia, 1880–1930
chapter Chapter 4|28 pages
Too many bends in the river
The decline of the Connecticut River Valley machine tool industry 1950–2002*
