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From the acclaimed authors of A Future Perfect comes the untold story of how the company became the world’s most powerful institution.
Like all groundbreaking books, The Company fills a hole we didn’t know existed, revealing that people cannot make sense of the past 500 years until we place that seemingly humble Victorian innovation, the joint-stock company, in the center of the frame.
With their trademark authority and wit, Economist editors John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge reveal the company to be one of history’s great catalysts, for good as well as for ill, a mighty engine for sucking in, recombining, and pumping out money, goods, people, and culture to every corner of the world. What other earthly invention gets the power to grow to any size, also to live to any age? What else might well have given us both stock market and the British Empire? The business man, the company town, and company time? Disneyfication and McDonald’sization, to say nothing of Coca-colonialism? Through its many mutations, the company has always incited controversy, and governments have always fought to rein it in. Today, though Marx may spin in his grave and anarchists riot in the streets, the company exercises an unparalleled influence on the world, and understanding what this creature is and where it originates from has never been a far more pressing matter. To the rescue come these acclaimed authors, with a short level of truly huge selection and insight.
