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The Economics in a Business History*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

Thomas C. Cochran
Thomas C. Cochran
Affiliation:
New York University
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The initial problems in writing the history of a business are similar to those encountered in writing the history of anything else: obtaining free access to all the existing records; determining whether these records are adequate to warrant the writing of a history; and then deciding what one wants to know from the records.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 5 , supplement S1 , December 1945 , pp. 54 - 65
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1945

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References

1 The “we” here is not editorial; G. Rowland Collins and Jules I. Bogen of New York University Graduate School of Business Administration helped in the original negotiations, and Rosamond B. Cochran and Ferdinand Schultz assisted me in the research.

2 Gras, N. S. B., “Are You Writing a Business History?” Bulletin of the Business Historical Society, XVIII (October 1944), 108.Google Scholar

3 Barnard, Chester I., The Functions of the Executive (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1938), passim..Google Scholar

4 Gras, “Are You Writing a Business History?” op. cit., pp. 101–2.

5 Shipping brewer or shipper is the name applied in the trade to a firm that sells a large part of its product outside its local market.

6 City production figures from Tovey's Brewers' Directory (New York, 1881), p. 12.Google Scholar

7 The figures for the shipping brewers' production on which this generalization is based are in confidential reports to the Pabst company from its own agents. They are probably not entirely reliable, but errors could hardly be so great as to upset our conclusion.

8 New York: F. S. Crofts and Company, 1939, pp. 661–64.

9 Statistical Abstract of the United States (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1938), pp. 307–8, for wholesale price indices.Google Scholar

10 There were at this time some 2,000 producers of beer and ale in the United States.—The United States Brewers Association, Brewers Almanac, 1944 (privately printed, 1944), p. 14. For list of syndicated firms, see Western Brewer, XVI (April 15, 1891), 878.

11 Walker, Edward Ronald, From Economic Theory to Policy (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1943)Google Scholar, passim; Barnard, The Functions of the Executive, passim; idem, The Riot of the Unemployed at Trenton, N. J., 1935 (pamphlet, n.p. n.d.).