Kochland the secret history of Koch Industries and corporate power in America
Uses the extraordinary account of how the biggest private company in the world grew to be that big to tell the story of modern corporate America. The annual revenue of Koch Industries is bigger than that of Goldman Sachs, Facebook, and U.S. Steel combined. Koch is everywhere: from the fertilizers th...
| Main Author: | Leonard, Christopher, 1975- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
2019.
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: The fighter
- Part 1: The Koch method. Under surveillance ; The age of volatility begins; The war for Pine Bend ; The age of volatility intensifies ; The war for Koch Industries ; Koch University ; The enemies circle ; The secret brotherhood of process owners ; Off the rails ; The failure
- Part 2: The black box economy. Rise of the Texans ; Information asymmetries ; Attack of the killer electrons! ; Trading the real world ; Seizing Georgia-Pacific ; The dawn of the labor management system ; The crash
- Part 3: Goliath. Solidarity ; Warming ; Hotter ; The war for America's BTUs ; The education of Chase Koch ; Make the IBU great again ; Burning ; Control
- Appendix: Alphabetical directory of significant characters in Kochland.