Publication

2015 - Lexington Books/Fortress Academic

Language

English

Word Count

34,500 words, Guess

Page Count

138 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780739189832
  • Open LibraryOL28584076M

Classifications

  • LCCCT275.C3B67 2015
  • LCCCT275.C3 B67 2015

Description

This biography of Andrew Carnegie emphasizes the economic dimension of his career in industry. It examines his life as a dynamic innovator during the period when the steel industry rapidly expanded and the United States became a major industrial power. Carnegie rose from a poverty-stricken Scottish childhood to a position of international industrial leadership, philanthropy, and peace advocacy, by means of intelligence, entrepreneurship, ambition, tenacity, guile, and ruthless determination. It is shown that Carnegie excelled as an economic actor. His alertness to expected profit opportunities, and success in coping with the uncertainties of the marketplace, made him a major influence on the growth of many of the most important industries of late-nineteenth century United States and world economies.

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Other Editions

  • Andrew Carnegie: An Economic BiographyLexington Books/Fortress Academic2015-01-01

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