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Reflection: Corporate Capitalism's Moral Lack
Joel Bakan
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05 August 2024, pp. 301-324
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Corporate capitalism changed dramatically in the early 2000s. The 1980s mantra that “greed is good” gave way to corporate vows to prioritize social and environmental values alongside profit. The rise of the “new corporation” purported to answer a question first raised in the nineteenth century: How do we ensure corporations are legally and morally accountable to those their actions impact? By the late nineteenth century, capitalism had become corporate, and the corporation had become capitalist. This created a moral lack in capitalism that inspired the “new capitalism” in the 1920s, the New Deal administrative state, and today's “new corporation.” Understanding its historical antecedents reveals the “new” corporation's limitations and dangers.

Trading Power: West Germany’s Rise to Global Influence, 1963-1975. By William Glenn Gray. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 498 pp. Hardback, $44.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-34119-6.
Christian Kleinschmidt
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17 January 2025, pp. 770-772
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Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic. By Michael Blaakman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN: 978-1-5128-2448-3.
Ariel Ron
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31 October 2024, pp. 587-590
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The Coming of the Railway: A New Global History, 1750–1850. By David Gwyn. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023. 416 pp. 32 color illustrations, 30 B/W illustrations, 6 maps. Hardcover, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-26789-1.
Mark Casson
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14 April 2025, pp. 977-979
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The Raging Erie: Life and Labor along the Erie Canal. By Mark S. Ferrara. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 259 pp. Paperback, $24.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-21638-8.
Howard R. Stanger
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14 April 2025, pp. 979-981
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05 August 2024, pp. 325-326
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The Life and Death of the Shopping City: Public Planning and Private Redevelopment in Britain since 1945. By Alistair Kefford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 340 pp. Online Access, $34.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-87450-2.
Richard Longstreth
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17 January 2025, pp. 772-774
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Faith in Markets: Christian Capitalism in the Early American Republic. By Joseph P. Slaughter. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 400 pp. Paperback, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-19111-1.
Darren E. Grem
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31 October 2024, pp. 590-593
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Paths of Fire, The Gun and the World It Made. By Andrew Nahum. London: Reaktion Books, Ltd, 2021. 253 pp. Hardcover, £25. ISBN: 978-1-78914-397-3.
Jonathan A. Grant
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14 April 2025, pp. 981-983
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White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation. By Naa Oyo A. Kwate. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. 472 pp. 80 b/w illus. Hardcover, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-5179-1109-6.
Kendra D. Boyd
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17 January 2025, pp. 774-777
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Reimagining Business: Virtue, Spirituality, Wisdom
Richard R. John
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05 August 2024, pp. 327-332
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American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation. By Roberto Saba. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. 373 pp. Hardcover, $39.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-19074-7.
Alain El Youssef
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31 October 2024, pp. 593-595
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The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade. By Simone M. Müller. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2023. 266 pp. Paperback, $30.00. ISBN: 978-0-295-75183-2.
Clarence Hatton-Proulx
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17 January 2025, pp. 778-780
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Capitalism in Chaos: How the Business Elites in Europe Prospered in the Era of the Great War. By Máté Rigó. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2022. 378 pp. + 34 b/w illus. Hardcover, $47.95. ISBN: 978-1-5017-6465-3.
Knut Sogner
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14 April 2025, pp. 983-986
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The Corporation and the Twentieth Century
Richard S. Tedlow
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05 August 2024, pp. 333-341
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Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success. By Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan. New York: Public Affairs Press, 2022. Hardcover, $29.00. 256 pp. ISBN: 978-1-5417-9783-3.
Tyler Anbinder
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31 October 2024, pp. 596-598
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Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State. By Katherine C. Epstein. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 368 pp. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-83122-0.
Seokju Oh
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14 April 2025, pp. 986-989
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Flemish Textile Workers in England, 1331–1400: Immigration, Integration and Economic Development. By Milan Pajic. Cambridge University Press, 2023. xvii + 368 pp. $130 hardback. ISBN: 978-1-108-77421-5.
Catherine Casson
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17 January 2025, pp. 780-782
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England’s Jews: Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century. By John Tolan. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 264 pp. + 9 b/w illus. Hardcover, $45.00. ISBN: 978-1-5128-2389-9.
Dean A. Irwin
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05 August 2024, pp. 343-345
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Onassis Business History, 1924-1975. Edited by Gelina Harlaftis. Leiden/Boston: Brill’s Studies in Maritime History, 2024. 415 pp. Hardcover, $216.00. ISBN: 978-90-04-53988-4.
Martin J. Iversen
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31 October 2024, pp. 598-601
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Trading Power: West Germany’s Rise to Global Influence, 1963-1975. By William Glenn Gray. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 498 pp. Hardback, $44.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-34119-6.

Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic. By Michael Blaakman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN: 978-1-5128-2448-3.

The Coming of the Railway: A New Global History, 1750–1850. By David Gwyn. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023. 416 pp. 32 color illustrations, 30 B/W illustrations, 6 maps. Hardcover, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-26789-1.

The Raging Erie: Life and Labor along the Erie Canal. By Mark S. Ferrara. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 259 pp. Paperback, $24.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-21638-8.

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The Life and Death of the Shopping City: Public Planning and Private Redevelopment in Britain since 1945. By Alistair Kefford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 340 pp. Online Access, $34.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-87450-2.

Faith in Markets: Christian Capitalism in the Early American Republic. By Joseph P. Slaughter. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 400 pp. Paperback, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-19111-1.

Paths of Fire, The Gun and the World It Made. By Andrew Nahum. London: Reaktion Books, Ltd, 2021. 253 pp. Hardcover, £25. ISBN: 978-1-78914-397-3.

White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation. By Naa Oyo A. Kwate. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. 472 pp. 80 b/w illus. Hardcover, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-5179-1109-6.

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Reimagining Business: Virtue, Spirituality, Wisdom

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American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation. By Roberto Saba. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. 373 pp. Hardcover, $39.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-19074-7.

The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade. By Simone M. Müller. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2023. 266 pp. Paperback, $30.00. ISBN: 978-0-295-75183-2.

Capitalism in Chaos: How the Business Elites in Europe Prospered in the Era of the Great War. By Máté Rigó. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2022. 378 pp. + 34 b/w illus. Hardcover, $47.95. ISBN: 978-1-5017-6465-3.

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The Corporation and the Twentieth Century

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Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success. By Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan. New York: Public Affairs Press, 2022. Hardcover, $29.00. 256 pp. ISBN: 978-1-5417-9783-3.

Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State. By Katherine C. Epstein. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 368 pp. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-83122-0.

Flemish Textile Workers in England, 1331–1400: Immigration, Integration and Economic Development. By Milan Pajic. Cambridge University Press, 2023. xvii + 368 pp. $130 hardback. ISBN: 978-1-108-77421-5.

England’s Jews: Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century. By John Tolan. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 264 pp. + 9 b/w illus. Hardcover, $45.00. ISBN: 978-1-5128-2389-9.

Onassis Business History, 1924-1975. Edited by Gelina Harlaftis. Leiden/Boston: Brill’s Studies in Maritime History, 2024. 415 pp. Hardcover, $216.00. ISBN: 978-90-04-53988-4.

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