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Roundtable Review

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  • Field, Alexander J.
  • Cheffins, Brian R.
  • Phillips-Sawyer, Laura
  • Lamoreaux, Naomi R.
  • Raff, Daniel M.G.

Abstract

In 2023, Princeton University Press published Richard Langlois’s The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise. It is a book of comparable mass to Alfred Chandler’s 1977 The Visible Hand and equally ambitious.1 The erudition is vast. (The bibliography alone runs 78 closely-printed pages. There are 122 pages of equally closely-printed footnotes to the 522-page main text whose own font is not large.) A production such as this seemed worth more than the usual traditional-form reviews, and in the September following its publication, the Penn Economic History Forum put on a symposium to discuss it. Interest was widespread: attendance in the room was agreeably substantial and came from far beyond the seminar’s usual catchment area, and there were requests for the Zoom link to the proceedings from around the world. (The expense was not vast and the ratio of impact to expense was almost certainly favorable relative to ordinary seminars. The economic history community might not suffer from putting on more such events when suitable occasions arise.)

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  • Field, Alexander J. & Cheffins, Brian R. & Phillips-Sawyer, Laura & Lamoreaux, Naomi R. & Raff, Daniel M.G., 2026. "Roundtable Review," Enterprise & Society, Cambridge University Press, vol. 27(1), pages 360-379, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:entsoc:v:27:y:2026:i:1:p:360-379_13
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