Projecting Capitalism: A History of the Internationalization of the Construction Industry
本书追溯19世纪40年代至20世纪西方大型建筑公司如何通过建设基础设施推动国际经济,打破建筑业是本地化小企业行业的迷思,适合国际、政治和发展经济学家及多领域历史学者阅读。
From the 1840's to the 20th century, large Western European and U.S. construction firms shaped the international economy by furnishing crucial physical infrastructure. The author attempts to destroy the myth that construction is a localized industry of many small firms in perfect competition, sheltered from world markets. U.S. and European firms that promote world markets were forced to transcend local and national markets and incorporate the Third World into both world markets and capital circuits. This book is valuable reading for international, political, and developmental economists; labor, economic, social, colonial, labor, engineering and material culture historians; organization theorists; and economic geographers.