A History Of Small Business In America

Author : Mansel G. Blackford
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807862339

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A History of Small Business in America by Mansel G. Blackford Pdf

From the colonial era to the present day, small businesses have been an integral part of American life. First published in 1991 and now thoroughly revised and updated, A History of Small Business in America explores the central but ever-changing role played by small enterprises in the nation's economic, political, and cultural development. Examining small businesses in manufacturing, sales, services, and farming, Mansel Blackford argues that while small firms have always been important to the nation's development, their significance has varied considerably in different time periods and in different segments of our economy. Throughout, he relates small business development to changes in America's overall business and economic systems and offers comparisons between the growth of small business in the United States to its development in other countries. He places special emphasis on the importance of small business development for women and minorities. Unique in its breadth, this book provides the only comprehensive overview of these significant topics.

Author : Mansel G. Blackford
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0807854530

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A History of Small Business in America by Mansel G. Blackford Pdf

From the colonial era to the present day, small businesses have been an integral part of American life. First published in 1991 and now thoroughly updated, this study explores the central but ever-changing role played by small enterprises in the nation's economic, political and cultural development.

Author : Carol Roth
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780063081420

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The War on Small Business by Carol Roth Pdf

For years, government bureaucrats have been looking for ways to destroy small businesses. With coronavirus, they finally had their chance. In 2020, the American economy suffered the biggest financial collapse in history. But while Main Street suffered like never before, the stock market continued to reach new highs. How could this be?The answer is that government had slapped oppressive restrictions on small businesses while propping up Wall Street and engineering a historic consolidation of power and wealth. This isn’t a new problem. During the last financial crisis, Washington bailed out large banks, saying they were “too big to fail.” When the federal government finally pushed out the CARES Act in 2020, it clearly favored the wealthy and well-connected, showing that small businesses were too small to matter. People across the political spectrum constantly complain about the tyranny of big business, and they’re not wrong. However, too many think government is the solution. In reality, government is the problem. In The War on Small Business, entrepreneur Carol Roth unveils the many abuses of power inflicted on small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Small business owners were thrown in jail for trying to make a living. Individual rights were discarded. Big government did what it does best—intentionally protect the rich and powerful. This is the most underreported story coming out of the pandemic. The government chose winners and losers, who would thrive and who would fight to survive, based on not data or science, but based on clout and connections. This enabled the government, with the aid of the Federal Reserve, to oversee the largest wealth transfer in history from Main Street to Wall Street. The issues started long ago and continue today with a highly tilted playing field that favors those “in the club” to the detriment of the average Americans. This book is about the Davids vs. the Goliaths and the decentralization that can help the small, independent businesses and individuals participate in wealth creation. If Americans don’t wake up and stop it, politicians will continue to produce policies that intensify their war on small business and individuals and all that stands in the way of centralized power and control.

Author : Robert D. Atkinson,Michael Lind
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262345675

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Big Is Beautiful by Robert D. Atkinson,Michael Lind Pdf

Why small business is not the basis of American prosperity, not the foundation of American democracy, and not the champion of job creation. In this provocative book, Robert Atkinson and Michael Lind argue that small business is not, as is widely claimed, the basis of American prosperity. Small business is not responsible for most of the country's job creation and innovation. American democracy does not depend on the existence of brave bands of self-employed citizens. Small businesses are not systematically discriminated against by government policy makers. Rather, Atkinson and Lind argue, small businesses are not the font of jobs, because most small businesses fail. The only kind of small firm that contributes to technological innovation is the technological start-up, and its success depends on scaling up. The idea that self-employed citizens are the foundation of democracy is a relic of Jeffersonian dreams of an agrarian society. And governments, motivated by a confused mix of populist and free market ideology, in fact go out of their way to promote small business. Every modern president has sung the praises of small business, and every modern president, according to Atkinson and Lind, has been wrong. Pointing to the advantages of scale for job creation, productivity, innovation, and virtually all other economic benefits, Atkinson and Lind argue for a “size neutral” policy approach both in the United States and around the world that would encourage growth rather than enshrine an anachronism. If we overthrow the “small is beautiful” ideology, we will be able to recognize large firms as the engines of progress and prosperity that they are.

Author : Karen G. Mills
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030036201

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Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream by Karen G. Mills Pdf

Small businesses are the backbone of the U.S. economy. They are the biggest job creators and offer a path to the American Dream. But for many, it is difficult to get the capital they need to operate and succeed. In the Great Recession, access to capital for small businesses froze, and in the aftermath, many community banks shuttered their doors and other lenders that had weathered the storm turned to more profitable avenues. For years after the financial crisis, the outlook for many small businesses was bleak. But then a new dawn of financial technology, or “fintech,” emerged. Beginning in 2010, new fintech entrepreneurs recognized the gaps in the small business lending market and revolutionized the customer experience for small business owners. Instead of Xeroxing a pile of paperwork and waiting weeks for an answer, small businesses filled out applications online and heard back within hours, sometimes even minutes. Banks scrambled to catch up. Technology companies like Amazon, PayPal, and Square entered the market, and new possibilities for even more transformative products and services began to appear. In Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream, former U.S. Small Business Administrator and Senior Fellow at Harvard Business School, Karen G. Mills, focuses on the needs of small businesses for capital and how technology will transform the small business lending market. This is a market that has been plagued by frictions: it is hard for a lender to figure out which small businesses are creditworthy, and borrowers often don’t know how much money or what kind of loan they need. New streams of data have the power to illuminate the opaque nature of a small business’s finances, making it easier for them to weather bumpy cash flows and providing more transparency to potential lenders. Mills charts how fintech has changed and will continue to change small business lending, and how financial innovation and wise regulation can restore a path to the American Dream. An ambitious book grappling with the broad significance of small business to the economy, the historical role of credit markets, the dynamics of innovation cycles, and the policy implications for regulation, Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream is relevant to bankers, fintech investors, and regulators; in fact, to anyone who is interested in the future of small business in America.

Author : Marc Levinson
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0809051435

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The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America by Marc Levinson Pdf

One of The Wall Street Journal's Best Non fiction Books of 2011. From modest beginnings as a tea shop, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company became the largest retailer in the world. It was a juggernaut, with nearly sixteen thousand stores. But its explosive growth made it a mortal threat to mom-and-pop grocery stores across the nation. Main Street fought back tooth and nail, leading the Hoover, Roosevelt, and Truman administrations to investigate the Great A&P. In a remarkable court case, the government pressed criminal charges against the company for selling food too cheaply-and won. In The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America, the acclaimed historian Marc Levinson tells the story of a struggle between small business and big business that tore America apart. George and John Hartford took over their father's business and reshaped it again and again, turning it into a vertically integrated behemoth that paved the way for every big-box retailer to come. George demanded a rock-solid balance sheet; John was the marketer-entrepreneur who led A&P through seven decades of rapid changes. Together, they set the stage for the modern consumer economy by turning an archaic retail industry into a highly efficient system for distributing food at low cost.

Author : Michael French
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0719041856

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US Economic History Since 1945 by Michael French Pdf

Since 1945 the US economy has evolved from an expanding consumer society in which affluence was more widely distributed than ever before. Mike French's volume examines the principal economic developments and social changes in the US since 1945, including those in business, regional dynamics, protest movements, and population distribution. Social movements based on the civil rights demands of African-Americans, ethnic minorities, and women are also examined. The elements of continuity to pre-1945 trends and the points of departure, notably in the post-1970 period, are discussed to provide a more complete examination than previously available.

Author : Jonathan Bean
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0813170974

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Big Government and Affirmative Action: The Scandalous History of the Small Business Administration by Jonathan Bean Pdf

David Stockman, Ronald Reagan's budget director, proclaimed the Small Business Administration a ""billion-dollar waste -- a rathole, "" and set out to abolish the agency. His scathing critique was but the latest attack on an agency better known as the ""Small Scandal Administration."" Loans to criminals, government contracts for minority ""fronts, "" the classification of American Motors as a small business, Whitewater, and other scandals -- the Small Business Administration has lurched from one embarrassment to another. Despite the scandals and the policy failures, the SBA thrives and small bus

Author : Mansel G. Blackford,Kathel Austin Kerr
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business enterprises
ISBN : UOM:39076002405939

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Business Enterprise in American History by Mansel G. Blackford,Kathel Austin Kerr Pdf

Timelines and examples from well-known companies help students gain a better understanding of the important connections among public policy and businesses, as well as a comparative understanding of business history over time and in recent decades.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Antitrust, Consumers, and Employment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Small business
ISBN : PURD:32754077657967

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Future of Small Business in America by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Antitrust, Consumers, and Employment Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Small business
ISBN : UCSD:31822017228446

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Future of Small Business in America by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business Pdf

Author : Stanley Buder
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780807832318

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Capitalizing on Change by Stanley Buder Pdf

Americans love "this year's model," relying on the "new" to be always "improved." Enthusiasm for the new, says Stanley Buder, is essential to American business, where innovation and change stoke the engines of economic energy. To really understand the his

Author : Thomas K. McCraw,William R. Childs
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119097266

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American Business Since 1920 by Thomas K. McCraw,William R. Childs Pdf

Tells the story of how America’s biggest companies began, operated, and prospered post-World War I This book takes the vantage point of people working within companies as they responded to constant change created by consumers and technology. It focuses on the entrepreneur, the firm, and the industry, by showing—from the inside—how businesses operated after 1920, while offering a good deal of Modern American social and cultural history. The case studies and contextual chapters provide an in-depth understanding of the evolution of American management over nearly 100 years. American Business Since 1920: How It Worked presents historical struggles with decision making and the trend towards relative decentralization through stories of extraordinarily capable entrepreneurs and the organizations they led. It covers: Henry Ford and his competitor Alfred Sloan at General Motors during the 1920s; Neil McElroy at Procter & Gamble in the 1930s; Ferdinand Eberstadt at the government’s Controlled Materials Plan during World War II; David Sarnoff at RCA in the 1950s and 1960s; and Ray Kroc and his McDonald’s franchises in the late twentieth century and early twenty-first; and more. It also delves into such modern success stories as Amazon.com, eBay, and Google. Provides deep analysis of some of the most successful companies of the 20th century Contains topical chapters covering titans of the 2000s Part of Wiley-Blackwell’s highly praised American History Series American Business Since 1920: How It Worked is designed for use in both basic and advanced courses in American history, at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Author : Tammy S. Gordon
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780759119369

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Private History in Public by Tammy S. Gordon Pdf

In small community museums, truck stops, restaurants, bars, barbershops, schools, and churches, people create displays to tell the histories that matter to them. Much of this history is personal: family history, community history, history of a trade, or the history of something considered less than genteel. It is often history based on the historical record, but also based on feelings, beliefs, and memory. It is neglected history. Private History in Public is about those history exhibits that complicate the public/private dichotomy, exhibits that serve to explain communities, families, and individuals to outsiders and tie insiders together through a shared narrative of historical experience. Tammy S. Gordon looks beyond the large professionalized museum exhibits that have dominated scholarship in museum studies and public history and offers a new way of understanding the broad spectrum of exhibition types in the United States.

Author : Stuart W. Bruchey
Publisher : Beard Books
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 158798184X

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Small Business in American Life by Stuart W. Bruchey Pdf

Seventeen scholarly essays provide insights into the role that small business has played in United States history.