Walter A. Friedman is director of the Business History Initiative at Harvard Business School, where he is also a faculty member and where he teaches the doctoral course in business history. He is author of Birth of a Salesman and Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters.
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By the early twentieth century, it became common to describe the United States as a 'business civilization.' President Coolidge in 1925 said, 'The chief business of the American people is business.' More recently, historian Sven Beckert characterized Henr... SEE MORE