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Chew, Donald H., Jr. The Making of Modern Corporate Finance: A History of the Ideas and How They Help Build the Wealth of Nations

Yueran Ma

Journal of Economic Literature2026https://doi.org/10.1257/jel.64.1.301.r4article
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Yueran Ma of University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, and NBER reviews “The Making of Modern Corporate Finance: A History of the Ideas and How They Help Build the Wealth of Nations” by Donald H. Chew Jr. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Explores the significant potential of the corporate finance function to increase the efficiency and value of organizations, from publicly traded companies to nonprofit institutions and state-owned enterprises, promoting the argument that US private-sector productivity is the fundamental source of US economic and social wealth.”

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@article{yueran2026,
  title        = {{Chew, Donald H., Jr. The Making of Modern Corporate Finance: A History of the Ideas and How They Help Build the Wealth of Nations}},
  author       = {Yueran Ma},
  journal      = {Journal of Economic Literature},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1257/jel.64.1.301.r4},
}

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