historical perspectives on the use of information /
edited by Peter Temin.
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1991.
viii, 260 pages :
illustrations ;
23 cm.
A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction / Peter Temin -- 1. Business History and Recent Economic Theory: Imperfect Information, Incentives, and the Internal Organization of Firms / Daniel M.G. Raff and Peter Temin -- Comment / David A. Hounshell -- 2. Managing by Remote Control: Recent Management Accounting Practice in Historical Perspective / H. Thomas Johnson -- Comment / Peter Tufano -- 3. The Use of Cost Measures: The Dow Chemical Company, 1890-1914 / Margaret Levenstein -- Comment / Barry Supple -- 4. Investing in Information: Supply and Demand Forces in the Use of Information in American Firms, 1850-1920 / JoAnne Yates -- Comment / Bengt R. Holmstrom -- 5. Information Problems and Banks' Specialization in Short-Term Commercial Lending: New England in the Nineteenth Century / Naomi R. Lamoreaux -- Comment / Charles W. Calomiris -- 6. Did J.P. Morgan's Men Add Value? An Economist's Perspective on Financial Capitalism / J. Bradford De Long -- Comment / Charles F. Sabel.