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The American Business Elite: A Collective Portrait

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The Dictionary of American Biography contains 1,464 biographies of eminent American businessmen. Among them are most of the wellknown financial and business figures, as well as many others never widely known or else long forgotten. The announced criterion for inclusion in the D.A.B. is that the person “did something notable in some field of American life.†Over 100 “consulting specialists†handled the various lists of candidates for inclusion; these specialists included economic and business historians.

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  • Mills, C. Wright, 1945. "The American Business Elite: A Collective Portrait," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 5(S1), pages 20-44, December.
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    1. Antoni Calvó-Armengol & Matthew O. Jackson, 2004. "Like Father, Like Son: Labor Market Networks and Social Mobility," Working Papers 179, Barcelona School of Economics.
    2. Rossier, Thierry & Ellersgaard, Christoph Houman & Larsen, Anton Grau & Lunding, Jacob Aagaard, 2022. "From integrated to fragmented elites. The core of Swiss elite networks 1910–2015," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 113830, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    3. Antoni Calvó-Armengol & Matthew O. Jackson, 2009. "Like Father, Like Son: Social Network Externalities and Parent-Child Correlation in Behavior," American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, American Economic Association, vol. 1(1), pages 124-150, February.

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