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In reply to the discussion: New Leader Of UK's Green Party: Nuclear Power Is The Betamax Of The Energy World [View all]Turborama
(22,109 posts)51. Looks like you've got some reading to do...
You might be able to find this in your local library (if not, it's available on Amazon)...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0273639641?ie=UTF8&force-full-site=1&ref_=aw_bottom_links
"The Sumerians invented temple capitalism; the Assyrians made it multinational; the Phoenicians evolved controls; the Greeks leapfrogged with an entrepreneurial model that replaced it; the Romans perfected a robust blend of autonomy and regimentation that flourished for four hundred years. Foundations of Corporate Empire puts all this under a microscope."
Richard T. Pascale, associate fellow, Templeton College, University of Oxford
"In this well-researched and highly readable book, Moore and Lewis persuasively argue that many of today's global economic institutions and structures are not as new as often proclaimed but the product of a long evolutionary process. Their conclusion that a historical perspective provides important clues about the future of globalization is thought provoking and worthy of broad debate."
Cornelis A. de Kluyver, Dean, Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management
"This fascinating book should serve as a timely reminder to those who seem to think that tomorrow can be managed with scarcely a backwards glance to yesterday. Compulsive reading for businessmen and politicians."
Sir David Rowland, President, Templeton College, University of Oxford
"A fascinating and important work, which deserves to be widely read."
Professor Alister McGrath, Oxford University
"Foundations of Corporate Empire offered me an eye-opening insight into how we have come to do business as we do. If you truly want to understand capitalism as we know it, read this book. Beyond any reasonable doubt, it proved to me the old saying that the more things change the more things stay the same."
Professor D'Aveni, author of Hypercompetition: Managing the dynamics of strategic maneuvering
PS it's actually bad form to post an excerpt of something without a link.
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New Leader Of UK's Green Party: Nuclear Power Is The Betamax Of The Energy World [View all]
Turborama
Sep 2012
OP
An example of a technology that has been relegated to being a historical artifact
Turborama
Sep 2012
#8
Right, so essentially: "I throw ad hominem attacks at writers who's work I don't read"
Turborama
Oct 2012
#16
LOL! So, if 3 people agree with Donald Trump that makes him correct about the President's BC?
Turborama
Oct 2012
#46
I thought the same thing when I read it -- superior performance undercut by cheaper and crappier
Brickbat
Oct 2012
#17
K&R But that was a very bad analogy. The leader of a political party really needs to be more
Egalitarian Thug
Sep 2012
#3