Mira Wilkins
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American economic historian
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Mira Wilkins's Degrees
- PhD Economic History University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Economics University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Economics University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Mira Wilkins is an American economic and business historian and a world authority on the history of American business and foreign direct investment. She is Professor Emerita at the Department of Economics, Florida International University.
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Published Works
- Third World Multinationals: The Rise of Foreign Investment from Developing Countries (1984) (442)
- The Emergence of Multinational Enterprise: American Business Abroad from the Colonial Era to 1914 (1973) (273)
- The Maturing of Multinational Enterprise: American Business Abroad from 1914 to 1970. (1975) (246)
- American Business Abroad (1964) (204)
- The History of Foreign Investment in the United States to 1914 (1989) (176)
- The free‐standing company, 1870‐1914: an important type of British foreign direct investment (1988) (143)
- The Neglected Intangible Asset: The Influence of the Trade Mark on the Rise of the Modern Corporation (1992) (128)
- I. WORLD WAR I (1974) (126)
- American Business Abroad: Ford on Six Continents (1964) (102)
- The History of the British Petroleum Company. (1995) (81)
- Opening America's Market: U.S. Foreign Trade Policy since 1776. (1996) (65)
- The Free-Standing Company in the World Economy, 1830-1996 (2001) (64)
- Global Electrification Multinational Enterprise and International Finance in the History of Light and Power, 1880s-1914 (2008) (61)
- The Role of Private Business in the International Diffusion of Technology (1974) (60)
- The History of Multinational Enterprise (2001) (58)
- European and North American Multinationals, 1870–1914: Comparisons and Contrasts (1988) (40)
- The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914–1945 (2004) (40)
- “Varieties of Capitalism” Roundtable (2010) (33)
- Japanese Multinationals in the United States: Continuity and Change, 1879–1990 (1990) (31)
- Multinational Oil Companies in South America in the 1920s: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru (1974) (30)
- Modern European Economic History and the Multinationals. (1977) (30)
- Economic Governance in the Age of Globalization (2005) (29)
- Multinational enterprise in insurance: An historical overview (2009) (26)
- Multinational Corporations: An Historical Account (1998) (26)
- Japanese Multinational Enterprise before 1914 (1986) (24)
- Leviathans: Multinational Enterprise to 1930: Discontinuities and Continuities (2005) (24)
- THE GROWTH OF MULTINATIONALS (1991) (21)
- International Big Business 1957-1967. A Study of Comparative Growth (1971) (20)
- Business Groups in the West: Origins, Evolution, and Resilience (2019) (20)
- The ‘2008 Crisis’ in an economic history perspective: Looking at the twentieth century (2011) (17)
- Multinational Enterprises and Economic Change (1998) (17)
- Chandler and Global Business History (2008) (15)
- American-Japanese Direct Foreign Investment Relationships, 1930–1952 (1982) (12)
- Dutch Multinational Enterprises in the United States: A Historical Summary (2005) (11)
- The History of Multinationals: A 2015 View (2015) (10)
- The Road to OPEC. United States Relations with Venezuela, 1919-1979. By Stephen G. Rabe. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982. Pp. ix, 262. Map. Statistical Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $25.) (1983) (10)
- US business in Europe: an American perspective (2008) (10)
- Global Electrification: Tables and Illustrations (2008) (10)
- The selected essays of John H. Dunning (2003) (10)
- The Emergence of Multinational Enterprise (2013) (9)
- FDI stocks are a biased measure of MNE affiliate activity: A response (2012) (9)
- MULTINATIONAL AUTOMOBILE ENTERPRISES AND REGULATION: AN HISTORICAL OVERVIEW (1980) (8)
- The Businessman Abroad* (1966) (7)
- Comparative Hosts (2020) (7)
- The History of the Multinational Enterprise (2009) (6)
- Global Electrification: Multinational Enterprise and International Finance (2008) (6)
- Efficiency and Management: A Comment on Gregory Clark's “Why Isn't the Whole World Developed?” (1987) (6)
- International Financial History in the Twentieth Century: Conduits for Long-Term Foreign Investment in the Gold Standard Era (2003) (6)
- History and financial crisis : lessons from the 20th century (2014) (6)
- Dutch Enterprise in the Twentieth Century: Business Strategies in a Small Open Economy. By Keetie E. Sluyterman. New York: Routledge, 2005. xiii + 319 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 0-415-35027-1 (2006) (5)
- German chemical firms in the United States from the late 19th century to post-World War II (2000) (5)
- American Business Abroad: The British Empery (2011) (5)
- British overseas investments, 1907-1948 (1977) (4)
- An American Enterprise Abroad: American Radiator Company in Europe, 1895–1914 (1969) (4)
- French multinationals in the United States: An historical perspective (1993) (4)
- The impact of multinational corporations (1989) (4)
- Foreign Enterprise in Florida: The Impact of Non-U.S. Direct Investment (1979) (3)
- Swiss investments in the United States 1914-1945 (1999) (3)
- Foreign Investment in the U.S. Economy before 1914 (1991) (3)
- The Economic Theory of the Multinational Enterprise . By Peter J. Buckley and Mark Casson. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. xii + 235 pp. $27.50.) (1986) (3)
- An overview of foreign companies in the United States, 1945–2000 (2001) (3)
- The History of Unilever: Challenge and Response in the Post-War Industrial Revolution, 1945–1965 . By Charles Wilson. New York, Frederick A. Praeger, 1968. Pp. ix + 290. $8.00. (1969) (3)
- Exxon: Transforming Energy, 1973–2005 (2015) (2)
- Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, 1903-2003 (Book) (2003) (2)
- Southern Exposure: Canadian Promoters in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1896–1930. By Christopher Armstrong and H. V. Nelles · Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, 1988. xv + 375 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendix, notes, and index. $35.00 (1990) (2)
- Japanese and European Management--Their International Adaptability/Kazuo Shibagaki,Malcolm Trevor,and Tetsuo Abo,eds.(1989)(東京大学社会科学研究所研究報告 第40集) (1990) (2)
- The European Multinationals: A Renewed Challenge to American and British Big Business . By Lawrence G. Franko. Stamford, Conn., Greylock Publishers, 1976. Pp. xii + 276. $14.95. (1977) (2)
- International business history: An AIB tradition (2008) (2)
- The Emergence of Multinational Enterprise: American Business Abroad from the Colonial Era to 1914. (1972) (1)
- Foreign investments in the United States : Department of Commerce and Department of Treasury estimates (1977) (1)
- Capitalizing on Change: A Social History of American Business (review) (2010) (1)
- Issues and insights on international investment (1977) (1)
- Europe as Home and Host to Multinational Enterprise (2008) (1)
- Economics and World Power: An Assessment of American Diplomacy Since 1789. Edited by William H. Becker and Samuel F. Wells. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. Pp. xvi, 474. $35.00 cloth, $10.00 paper (1984) (1)
- The Missionary Spirit (2011) (1)
- Venezuelan Investment in Florida: 1979 (1981) (1)
- Meeting assest management and supply chain challenges - using RFID in real world applications (2006) (1)
- Chandler: A Retrospect (2008) (1)
- The Experience of Foreign Multinational Enterprises in Japan, 1946-1974 (2007) (1)
- Charles Pathé’s American business (1994) (1)
- Family Firm to Modern Multinational: Norton Company, a New England Enterprise. By Charles W. Cheape. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985. xv + 424 pp. $25.00.) (1986) (1)
- Global Electrification: Notes (2008) (1)
- Global Electrification: The Invention and Spread of Electric Utilities, with a Measure of the Extent of Foreign Ownership (2008) (1)
- International Technology Transfer: Europe, Japan, and the USA, 1700–1914. Edited by David J. Jeremy. Aldershot, England: Edward Elgar, 1991. Pp. xiii, 253. $68.95 (1992) (1)
- III. THE OUTLOOK (1974) (1)
- The Piano: A History. By Cyril Ehrlich. London: J. N. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1976. Pp. 254. $15.00 (1977) (1)
- Global Electrification: Coming Full Circle, 1978–2007, and a Global Perspective (2008) (0)
- Britain's Investment Overseas on the Eve of the First World War: The Use and Abuse of Numbers. By D. C. M. Platt. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. xii + 179 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95.) (1987) (0)
- The Growth of International Business. Edited by Mark Casson. (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1983. xii + 276 pp. $28.50.) (1983) (0)
- Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, 1903–2003. By Douglas Brinkley. New York: Viking, 2003. xxii + 858 pp. Photographs, index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0-670-03181-X (2003) (0)
- Multinational Excursions. By Charles P. Kindleberger. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1984. ix + 275 pp. $22.50.) (1985) (0)
- The United States and the Global Struggle for Minerals. By Alfred E. Eckes Jr., Austin, University of Texas Press, 1979. Pp. xi + 353. $18.95 (1980) (0)
- The Sun Never Sets (2012) (0)
- Foreign direct investment in the Southeast: an historical perspective (1986) (0)
- Chris Kobrak (January 21, 1950–January 8, 2017): A Tribute (2018) (0)
- Jonathan Crystal. Unwanted Company: Foreign Investment in American Industries. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003. xii + 230 pp. ISBN 0-8014-4123-4, $30.45 (cloth) (2004) (0)
- VIII. OBSTACLES TO GROWTH (1974) (0)
- American Business Abroad: Manufacturing for World Markets: From Dagenham to Geelong (2011) (0)
- Global Electrification: Preface (2008) (0)
- Entrepreneurship and Industry in India 1800–1947. Edited by Rajat K. Ray. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. ix, 263. $16.95 (1993) (0)
- Time of Desperation (2011) (0)
- IX. THE PARADOX OF OIL (1974) (0)
- An Economic History of South Africa: Conquest, Discrimination and Development. By Charles H. Feinstein. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xxiii, 302. $75. (2006) (0)
- American Business Abroad: Introduction to the First Edition (2011) (0)
- American Business Abroad: Extreme of Nationalism (2011) (0)
- Learning and Technological Change ed. by Ross Thomson (1995) (0)
- Merchant Enterprise in Britain: From the Industrial Revolution to World War I . By Stanley Chapman · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xvi + 339 pp. Tables, charts, appendixes, manuscript sources, and index. $69.95, ISBN 0-521-35178-2. (1993) (0)
- International Capital Movements During the Inter-War Period (1978) (0)
- Business History of the World: A Chronology (1994) (0)
- 5 – Multinational Corporations and the Transfer of Technology (1979) (0)
- Book Reviews (2000) (0)
- Overseas Business Activities . Edited by Akio Okochi and Tadakatsu Inoue. (Tokyo, University of Tokyo Press, 1984. xiii + 296 pp. 5000 yen.) (1984) (0)
- Capitalizing on Change: A Social History of American Business. By Stanley Buder (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2009) 541 pp. $45.00 (2010) (0)
- American Business Abroad: New Times, New Faces, New Policies (2011) (0)
- European foreign investments as seen by the U.S. Department of Commerce (1977) (0)
- Steps in Expansion (2012) (0)
- The Multinational Enterprise and the Emergence of the Global Factory by Peter Buckley (review) (2016) (0)
- Kazuo Shibagaki, Malcolm Trevor, and Tetsuo Abo, eds., Japanese and European Management : Their International Adaptability (1990) (0)
- American Business Abroad: On Both Sides of World War II (2011) (0)
- Multinationalism, Japanese Style. By Terutomo Ozawa. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. xxiii + 290 pp. $8.95.) (1984) (0)
- The Seven Sisters: The Great Oil Companies and the World They Shaped. By Anthony Sampson. New York: Viking Press, 1975. Pp. 334 (1976) (0)
- Global Electrification: Series Editors' Preface (2008) (0)
- The Second Information Revolution (review) (2004) (0)
- Model T: Triumph and Fable (2011) (0)
- Sheffield Steel and America: A Century of Commercial and Technological Interdependence, 1830–1930. By Geoffrey Tweedale. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xvi + 296 pp. Maps, charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.50 (1988) (0)
- International Relations Richard Eells. Global Corporations: The Emerging System of World Economic Power. Pp. 242. New York: Interbook, 1972. $8.95 (1973) (0)
- Economic Policies at Cross-Purposes: The United States and Developing Countries. By Anne O. Krueger. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1993. Pp. xii, 252. Cloth, $36.95; paper, $16.95 (1993) (0)
- Modern Europe (1985) (0)
- V. SUPPLY STRATEGIES (1974) (0)
- American Business Abroad: Plate section (2011) (0)
- U.S. Multinationals and Worker Participation in Management: The American Experience in the European Community. By Ton DeVos. Westport, Conn., Quorum Books, 1981. Pp. xv + 229. $29.95 (1982) (0)
- American Business Abroad: The Best-Laid Plans (2011) (0)
- Encyclopedia of International Commerce. William J. Miller. Centreville: Cornell Maritime press, 1985. Pp. x, 391. $37.50 (1986) (0)
- Basic Infrastructure, 1929–1945 (2008) (0)
- Global Electrification: Every City, 1880–1914 (2008) (0)
- IV. THE CONQUEST OF MARKETS (1974) (0)
- Economics (1986) (0)
- Transnationalism in World Politics and Business. Edited by Forest L. Grieves. New York, Pergamon Press, 1979. Pp. xiii + 217. $17.50 (1980) (0)
- American Enterprise in Foreign Markets: Singer and International Harvester in Imperial Russia. By Fred V. Carstensen. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984. vii + 289 pp. $29.95.) (1985) (0)
- Χ. BEFORE AMERICA'S ENTRY (1974) (0)
- Oil and Empire: British Policy and Mesopotamian Oil, 1900–1920 . By Marian Kent. London: Macmillan Press; New York: Harper & Row, 1976. Pp. xiii, 273. $24.50. (1977) (0)
- An American Company: The Tragedy Of United Fruit. By Thomas McCann. New York, Crown Publishers, 1976. Pp. 244. $8.95 (1977) (0)
- The effect of banking crises on deposit growth: State-level evidence from 1900 to 1930 (2014) (0)
- Merchant Capital and Economic Decolonization: The United Africa Company 1929-1987. By D. K Fieldhouse · Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. xxviii + 832 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $95.00. ISBN 0-19-822625-X (1995) (0)
- Probing for Markets (2011) (0)
- Finance and financiers in European history 1880–1960: Extra-European financial centres: comments (1991) (0)
- American Business Abroad: Prosperity and Frustration (2011) (0)
- Unilever Overseas: The Anatomy of a Multinational 1895–1965 . By D. K. Fieldhouse. Stanford, Calif., Hoover Institution Press, 1978. Pp. ix + 620. $22.00. (1980) (0)
- Foreign State Enterprise: A Threat to American Business. By Douglas F. Lamont. New York: Basic Books, 1979. Pp. xv, 272. $11.95 (1979) (0)
- Reviews of Books (1976) (0)
- Grace: W. R. Grace and Company, The Formative Years 1850-1930 (1987) (0)
- Multinational Corporations (1982) (0)
- American Multinationals: Who, What, When, Where, and How?@@@The Maturing of Multinational Enterprise: American Business Abroad from 1914 to 1970. (1975) (0)
- Unwanted Company: Foreign Investment in American Industries (review) (2004) (0)
- American Business Abroad: First Venture (2011) (0)
- Sherman Cochran. Encountering Chinese Networks: Western, Japanese, and Chinese Corporations in China, 1880–1937. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. xxii + 269 pp. ISBN 0-520-21625-3, $40.00 (2001) (0)
- Entrepôt Capitalism: Foreign Investment and the American Dream in the Twentieth Century. By Charles R. Geisst · Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1992. xxi + 154 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-275-93894-8 (1993) (0)
- Pacific Banking, 1859-1959: East Meets West. Edited by Olive Checkland, Shizuya Nishimura, and Norio Tamaki · Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1994. xix + 213 pp. Tables, charts, figures, and index. $65.00. ISBN 0-312-12386-8 (1995) (0)
- XI. GLOBAL WAR (1974) (0)
- An Economic Background to Munich: International Business and Czechoslovakia 1918–1938. By Alice Teichova. London and New York, Cambridge University Press, 1974. Pp. xx + 422. $27.50 (1975) (0)
- Contemporary Economies. Part One and Part Two. Edited by Carlo M. Cipolla. New York, Harper Pp. 402. $17.50 each (1979) (0)
- American Business Abroad: Bibliographical Essay (2011) (0)
- British Multinationals: Origins, Management and Performance . Edited by Geoffrey Jones. Brookfield, Vt.: Gower Publishing Company, 1986. xii + 212 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, notes, select bibliography, and index. $55.95. (1987) (0)
- XV. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS IN PERSPECTIVE (1974) (0)
- Peter Buckley. The Multinational Enterprise and the Emergence of the Global Factory. Houndsmill, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. xvi + 404 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-40236-3, $120.00 (cloth) (2016) (0)
- II. DIFFICULTIES ABROAD, 1914-1920 (1974) (0)
- Global Electrification: Appendix B: Notes to Table 1.4 Foreign Ownership of Electric Utilities, Four Periods (2008) (0)
- XII. RECOVERY AND RECONSIDERATION, 1945-1954 (1974) (0)
- Antitrust and Global Capitalism, 19302004. By Tony A. Freyer (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006) 437 pp. $85.00 (2008) (0)
- Oil and Politics in Modern Brazil . By Peter Seaborn Smith. Toronto, Macmillan Company of Canada, Ltd., 1976. Pp. xii + 289. $19.95. (1977) (0)
- harold g. vatter. The U.S. Economy in World War II. (Columbia Studies in Business, Government, and Society.) New York: Columbia University Press. 1985. Pp. x, 198. $25.00 (1986) (0)
- Emily S. Rosenberg. Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900–1930. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. x + 334 pp. ISBN 0-674-00059-5, $45.00 (2000) (0)
- Multinational Corporations and the Politics of Dependence: Copper in Chile. By Theodore H. Moran. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1974. Pp. xiv + 286. $12.50 (1975) (0)
- A World Disturbed (2011) (0)
- XIII. THE ENVIRONMENT FOR MULTINATIONAL BUSINESS, 1955-1970 (1974) (0)
- Victorian Shipping, Business and Imperial Policy: Donald Currie, the Castle Line and Southern Africa. By Andrew Porter. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. x + 332 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 (1987) (0)
- International Economic Sanctions: Improving the Haphazard U.S. Legal Regime. By Barry E. Carter. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xiv + 290 pp. $34.50.) (1989) (0)
- The Chemical Industry, 1900-1930: International Growth and Technological Change. By L. F. Haber. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1971. Pp. xii + 452. $19.25 (1972) (0)
- XIV. MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE, 1955-1970 (1974) (0)
- Global Electrification: Appendix A: Abbreviations, Acronyms, Company Names, and Variations on Company Names (2008) (0)
- Economics and Empire, 1830–1914 . By D. K. Fieldhouse. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 1973. Pp. xvi + 527. $16.50. (1975) (0)
- Economics (1988) (0)
- Same Bed, Different Dreams: A History of the Chinese American Bank of Commerce, 1919-1937 Noel H. Pugach (1998) (0)
- Antitrust and Global Capitalism, 1930–2004 (review) (2008) (0)
- A Broken Bond: American Economic Policies Toward Japan, 1931-1941 (1988) (0)
- The Century of U.S. Capitalism in Latin America (review) (2000) (0)
- VII. AN OVERVIEW (1974) (0)
- FDI Perspectives: Issues in International Investment, 2nd Edition (2012) (0)
- Not 'Innocents Abroad': American Multinational Corporations and the United States Government@@@Global Reach: The Power of the Multinational Corporations@@@American Corporations and Peruvian Politics@@@Multinational Corporations and the Politics of Dependence: Copper in Chile@@@The Maturing of Multin (1976) (0)
- Joshua Barkan. Corporate Sovereignty: Law and Government under Capitalism. (2014) (0)
- Global Electrification: Summary of the Domestication Pattern to 1978 (2008) (0)
- Beyond Free Trade: Firms, Governments, and Global Competition. Edited by David B. Yoffie · Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 1993. xix + 466 pp. Charts, tables,notes, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-87584-344-1 (1993) (0)
- The New Company (2011) (0)
- The Crippled Phoenix (2011) (0)
- American Business Abroad: The Alchemy of War (2011) (0)
- From these Beginnings: The Early Philanthropies of Henry and Edsel Ford, 1911-1936@@@American Business Abroad: Ford on Six Continents (1965) (0)
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