The Fall of the Bell System

摘要: AT&T's divestiture was the largest corporate reorganization in history and has had international repercussions. It a major development American economic policy, prominent part of deregulation movement late 1970s. This study reveals internal decision-making process at AT&T explains how private public interests combined to shape policy 20th-century America. Temin weaves strands politics, economics, business, law into an accessible narrative that will be interest general reader who wants know about government business interaction it affects citizens. portrays as great experiment competition, openness, policy. He concludes been mix deliberate design uncontrollable forces whose outcome not foreseen.