The power of scale : a global history approach
Drawing on history, economics, anthropology and sociology, the author argues that individuals, not social classes, have been the agents of social change. He looks at how increases in scale necessarily lead to an increasingly small elite gaining disproportionate power.
History
1 online resource (318 pages) : illustrations, tables
9780765609847, 9780765609854, 9781315699233, 0765609843, 0765609851, 1315699230
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1: Introduction: Imperia and the Power of Scale; 2: Imperia in Three Worlds; 3: Why Scale Matters; 4: The Political Elite Take Power; 5: The Rise of European Commercial Elites; 6: The Power Elite in Action: America's Commercial Revolution, 1787–1945; 7: Counter-Imperia: Imagining Alternative Worlds; 8: Utopian Capitalists: Constructing and Reconstructing the World Order, 1945–2000; 9: Beyond 2000: An Optimal-Scale Commercial World