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Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on April 10, 2009
Enterprise and Society 2009 10(2):415-417; doi:10.1093/es/khp011
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Andrew M. Schocket. Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia

Andrew M. Schocket. Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. xiii + 274 pp. ISBN 0-87580-369-5, $42.00 (cloth).

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Andrew Schocket's Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia is a worthwhile addition to the historical fields of both Business and the Early Republic. The book's primary question is why the emerging economic elite of Philadelphia chose the corporate form over other types of business. In addition to reinvigorating this fundamental query of Business History, Schocket ties the rise of the corporation to the developing ideology of the new United States. The author weaves an intriguing tale, untangling . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Paula K. Gajewski

Vanderbilt University


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