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Erik Baker, "Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America" (Harvard UP, 2025)

New Books in Economic and Business History

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Entrepreneurship and American Identity

This chapter examines the relationship between entrepreneurialism and American national identity from the post-World War II era to the early Cold War. It highlights how entrepreneurship became a cultural belief intertwined with democracy and explores the rise of corporate models that aimed to restore traditional values in the face of contemporary capitalism.

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