Ep. 60: Why Corporations Dominated the 20th Century with Richard Langlois

How did major crises like the Great Depression and World War II — and government interventionism through the New Deal — shape the economy of the 20th century? And how did corporations come to dominate this period? Richard Langlois, a professor at UConn, offers a nuanced reframing and reassessment of the economic, institutional and intellectual history of what’s been called the “managerial century” in his new book, The Corporation and the Twentieth Century. Learn more here.