Capital gains : business and politics in twentieth-century America

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Capital gains : business and politics in twentieth-century America

edited by Richard R. John and Kim Phillips-Fein

(Hagley perspectives on business and culture)

University of Pennsylvania Press, c2017

  • : hardcover

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-290) and index

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内容説明

Recent events-the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and efforts to increase the minimum wage, among others-have driven a tremendous surge of interest in the political power of business. Capital Gains collects some of the most innovative new work in the field. The chapters explore the influence of business on American politics in the twentieth century at the federal, state, and municipal levels. From corporate spending on city governments in the 1920s to business support for public universities in the postwar period, and from business opposition to the Vietnam War to the corporate embrace of civil rights, the contributors reveal an often surprising portrait of the nation's economic elite. Contrary to popular mythology, business leaders have not always been libertarian or rigidly devoted to market fundamentalism. Before, during, and after the New Deal, important parts of the business world sought instead to try to shape what the state could accomplish and to make sure that government grew in ways that were favorable to them. Appealing to historians working in the fields of business history, political history, and the history of capitalism, these essays highlight the causes, character, and consequences of business activism and underscore the centrality of business to any full understanding of the politics of the twentieth century-and today. Contributors: Daniel Amsterdam, Brent Cebul, Jennifer Delton, Tami Friedman, Eric Hintz, Richard R. John, Pamela Walker Laird, Kim Phillips-Fein, Laura Phillips Sawyer, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Eric Smith, Jason Scott Smith, Mark R. Wilson.

目次

Preface -Kim Phillips-Fein Introduction. Adversarial Relations? Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America -Richard R. John PART I. THE PROGRESSIVE ERA AND THE 1920s Chapter 1. Trade Associations, State Building, and the Sherman Act: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1912-25 -Laura Phillips Sawyer Chapter 2. Toward a Civic Welfare State: Business and City Building in the 1920s -Daniel Amsterdam PART II. THE NEW DEAL AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR Chapter 3. The "Monopoly" Hearings, Its Critics, and the Limits of Patent Reform in the New Deal -Eric S. Hintz Chapter 4. Farewell to Progressivism: The Second World War and the Privatization of the "Military-Industrial Complex" -Mark R. Wilson Chapter 5. Beyond the New Deal: Thomas K. McCraw and the Political Economy of Capitalism -Richard R. John and Jason Scott Smith PART III. THE POSTWAR ERA: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Chapter 6. "Free Enterprise" or Federal Aid? The Business Response to Economic Restructuring in the Long 1950s -Tami J. Friedman Chapter 7. "They Were the Moving Spirits": Business and Supply-Side Liberalism in the Postwar South -Brent Cebul Chapter 8. A Fraught Partnership: Business and the Public University Since the Second World War -Elizabeth Tandy Shermer PART IV. THE POSTWAR ERA: LIBERALISM AND ITS CRITICS Chapter 9. The Triumph of Social Responsibility in the National Association of Manufacturers in the 1950s -Jennifer Delton Chapter 10. "What Would Peace in Vietnam Mean for You as an Investor?" Business Executives and the Antiwar Movement, 1967-75 -Eric R. Smith Chapter 11. Entangled: Civil Rights in Corporate America Since 1964 -Pamela Walker Laird Notes Contributors Index * * * * *

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