American Entrepreneur, Chapter 5: The Rise of Managers, 1850-1880

Big business changes management, federal government regulates business, differences in North and the South, railroads, slavery, new management systems developed for the railroad companies, government assistance to the railroads, profitability of slavery and the methods used by economists to determine it, increasing productivity in agriculture. People discussed include Jim Fisk, Jay Gould, Alfred Chandler, Albert Fink, J. Edgar Thomson, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Erastus Corning, Daniel Drew, Daniel McCallum, James Hill, Lydia Pinkham, Heinrich Steinweg, Jonas Chickering, Elisha Otis, Cyrus McCormick, and John Deere.