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The Company - A short history of a revolutionary idea

Paperback • 2005

The Company - A short history of a revolutionary idea

By John Micklethwait & Adrian Woolridge

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The company is Britain´s most influential invention - an idea which gave birth to the Industrial revolution and which underpins modern life. The simple but brilliant idea has been one of the great catalysts of world history, acting as an engine for gathering in and pumping out money, goods, people and culture to every corner of the globe. What other institution could have produced the stock exchange, opium wars, the British Empire and globalization? But the company has never exercised greater po...Show more

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