Railroaded

in collaboration with The Spatial History Project


The books and formulations that I have in mind are classics of their literature.

Matthew Josephson, The Robber Barons: The Great American Capitalists, 1861-1901 (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1934).

Frank Norris, The Octopus: A Story of California (New York: Bantam Books, 1958, orig. ed., 1901).

Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, 3d ed. (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1947).

Alfred Chandler, The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1977).