The Executive Summary - 8/29/22 - 9/2/22

A roundup of articles and other materials of interest to scholars of business and economic history.

Your fall to-do list:

• Redownload a copy of Scott Sandage’s evergreen, slightly blurry, PDF on how to read a book.
• Check out the fall lineup for the HKIHSS Chinese Business History Webinar.
• Consider becoming a book reviewer for Business History.

A few NBER working papers of interest:

• The Postal Service in the Gilded Age.
• Automation after the assembly line.
• Were small businesses more likely to permanently close during the pandemic?

Finally: a good rant on business dude lorem ipsum.

Send all comments, suggestions, ideas, and leads for this section to Associate Editor Ashton Merck.