Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Lemann, Nicholas (1954-....)
Titre(s) : Transaction man [Texte imprimé] : the rise of the deal and the decline of the American dream / Nicholas Lemann
Publication : New York (N.Y.) : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (306 p.) ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 269-285. Index
Sujet(s) : Conditions économiques -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
Politique économique -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
Entreprises -- États-Unis -- Histoire
Indice(s) Dewey :
330.973 09 (23e éd.) = Situation et conditions économiques - États-Unis - 1901-....
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780374277888 (rel.). - ISBN 0374277885
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46609067s
Notice n° :
FRBNF46609067
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Résumé : Over the last generation, the United States has undergone seismic changes. Stable
institutions have given way to frictionless transactions, which are celebrated no
matter what collateral damage they generate. The concentration of great wealth has
coincided with the fraying of social ties and the rise of inequality. How did all
this come about? Nicholas Lemann explains the United States' -- and the world's --
great transformation by examining three remarkable individuals who epitomized and
helped create their eras. Adolf Berle, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's chief theorist
of the economy, imagined a society dominated by large corporations, which a newly
powerful federal government had forced to become benign and stable institutions, contributing
to the public good by offering stable employment and generous pensions. By the 1970s,
the corporations' large stockholders grew restive under this regime, and their chief
theoretician, Harvard Business School's Michael Jensen, insisted that firms should
maximize shareholder value, whatever the consequences. Today, Silicon Valley titans
such as the LinkedIn cofounder and venture capitalist Reid Hoffman hope "networks"
can reknit our social fabric. Lemann interweaves these profiles with a history of
the Morgan Stanley investment bank from the 1930s through the financial crisis of
2008, while also tracking the rise and fall of a working-class Chicago neighborhood
and the family-run car dealerships at its heart
Table des matières : Prologue ; Institution man ; The time of institutions ; Transaction man ; The
time of transactions : rising ; The time of transactions : failing ; Network man
; Afterword: An attempt to use a tool.
