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 that make our food to the chemicals that make our pipes to the synthetics that make our carpets and diapers to the Wall Street trading in all these commodities. But few people know much about Koch Industries and that's because the billionaire Koch brothers want it that way. For five decades, CEO Charles Koch has kept Koch Industries quietly operating in deepest secrecy, with a view toward very, very long-term profits. He's a genius businessman: patient with earnings, able to learn from his mistakes, determined that his employees develop a reverence for free-market ruthlessness, and a master disrupter. These strategies have made him and his brot

ISBN:	9781476775388
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Imprint:	Simon & Schuster
Published date:	13 Aug 2019
DEWEY:	338.7665530973
DEWEY edition:	23
Number of pages:	x, 687
Weight:	998g
Height:	236mm
Width:	163mm
Spine width:	46mm

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