Uneasy partners : big business in American politics, 1945-1990

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Uneasy partners : big business in American politics, 1945-1990

Kim McQuaid

(The American moment)

Johns Hopkins University Press, c1994

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-218) and index

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ISBN 9780801846519

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This text surveys the close ties that have formed between big business and government in the period from World War II to the present. McQuaid explains that government needs business to make and implement key economic and business-related decisions. Business needs government to gain advantages over labour and markets. The defining characteristics of this business-government relationship form the focal point for each of this book's chapters. The author first examines the 1945-60 transition period, discussing Eisenhower's domestic policies, foreign aid and the oil market. He explores the rapid expansion of government under the Democratic administrations of the 1960s and discusses the Republican retrenchment and the Reagan administration's pro-business agenda in the 1980s. Finally, he assesses the legacy of the Reagan policies and evaluates the current US position in the world economy.
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: pbk ISBN 9780801846526

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"Businessmen are politicians in America," writes Kim McQuaid, "and politicians are businessmen." Today, in areas as diverse as home mortgages, high technology, and Smart Bombs, the private and public sectors are working together to perform tasks that each is unable to do alone. In Uneasy Partners McQuaid surveys the close ties that have formed between big business and government in the period from World War II to the present. Government needs business, McQuaid explains, to make and implement key economic and business-related decisions. Business needs government to gain advantages over labor and markets. The defining characteristics of this business-government relationship form the focal point for each of the book's chapters. McQuaid first examines the 1945-60 transition period, discussing Eisenhower's domestic policies, foreign aid, and the oil market. He explores the rapid expansion of government under the Democratic administrations of the 1960s. He discusses the Republican retrenchment and the Reagan administration's pro-business agenda in the 1980s. Finally he assesses the legacy of the Reagan policies and evaluates the current U.S. position in the world economy.

Table of Contents

Foreword Preface Prologue: August 1945 Chapter 1. Defining Postwar Normalcy: The Fight Over Labor Law Chapter 2. The Path to the Marshall Plan Chapter 3. Oil: Cold War Symbiosis at an Apex Chapter 4. Korea, Communism, and Corruption: The Path to Eisenhower Chapter 5. Eisenhower and the American Corporate Dream Chapter 6. Corporations on the New Frontier Chapter 7. The Time of Troubles Begins: From Lyndon Johnson to Gerald Ford Chapter 8. Corporate Resurgence from Carter to Reagan Chapter 9. The Reagan Revolution and Afterward Postscript: New Year's Day, 1992 Abbreviations Bibliographical Essay Index

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