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Edited by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Daniel M. G. Raff

Coordination and Information

Historical Perspectives on the Organization of Enterprise

345 pages, 2 halftones, 6 line drawings, 26 tables  6 x 9  © 1995
Series: National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report

Cloth $97.00

ISBN: 9780226468204   Published April 1995

Paper $31.00

ISBN: 9780226468211   Published April 1995

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ISBN: 9780226468587

Introduction: History and Theory in Search of One Another
Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Daniel M. G. Raff.
1: The Puzzling Profusion of Compensation Systems in the Interwar
Automobile Industry
Daniel M. G. Raff
Comment
Walter Licht
2: Industrial Engineering and the Industrial Enterprise, 1890-1940
Daniel Nelson
Comment
Michael J. Piore
3: The Coordination of Business Organization and Technological Innovation
within the Firm: A Case Study of the Thomson-Houston Electric Company in
the 1880s
W. Bernard Carlson
Comment
John Sutton
4: Organization and Coordination in Geographically Concentrated Industries
Michael J. Enright
Comment
Kenneth L. Sokoloff
5: The Boundaries of the U.S. Firm in R&D
David C. Mowery
Comment
Joel Mokyr
6: Legal Restraints on Economic Coordination: Antitrust in Great Britain
and America, 1880-1920
Tony Freyer
Comment
Victor P. Goldberg
7: The Evolution of Interregional Mortgage Lending Channels, 1870-1940: The
Life Insurance-Mortgage Company Connection
Kenneth A. Snowden
Comment
Timothy W. Guinnane
8: The Costs of Rejecting Universal Banking: American Finance in the German
Mirror, 1870-1914
Charles W. Calomiris
Comment
Peter Temin
Contributors
Name Index
Subject Index
Subjects



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