This book provides a sweeping interpretation of how business mobilized to influence public policy and elections since World War II.
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This volume showcases the most exciting new voices in the fields of business and political history. While the media frequently warns of the newfound power of business in the world of politics, the authors in this book demonstrate that business has mobilized to shape public policy and government institutions, as well as electoral outcomes, for decades. Rather than assuming that business influence is inevitable, the chapters explore the complex evolution of this relationship in a wide range of different arenas--from attempts to create a corporate-friendly tax policy and regulations that would work in the interests of particular industries, to local boosterism as a weapon against New Deal liberalism, to the nexus between evangelical Christianity and the oil industry, to the frustrations that business people felt in struggles with public interest groups. The history that emerges show business actors organizing themselves to affect government in myriad ways, sometimes successfully but other times with outcomes far different than they hoped for. The result in an image of American politics that is more complex and contested than it is often thought to be.
The essays represent a new trend in scholarship on political economy, one that seeks to break down the barriers that once separated old subfields to offer a vision of the economy as shaped by politics and political life influenced by economic relationships.
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General info
Publisher & Imprint:
Oxford University Press Inc
City:
New York
Pages:
320
More info:
height 239 mm
width 162 mm
weight 626 gr
thickness 22 mm
Subject Indexing & Classification
Dewey:(DC23) 332.30973
Library of Congress Subject: Industrial policy - United States - History
Departments:
Political economy;
Record updated at:
20 April, 2013
time:
13:45
Summary
What's Good for Business
TABLE OF CONTENTS ; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; CONTRIBUTORS ; INTRODUCTION WHAT'S GOOD FOR BUSINESS? BY KIM PHILLIPS-FEIN AND JULIAN E. ZELIZER ; 1. THE ADVANTAGES OF OBSCURITY: WORLD WAR II TAX CARRY-BACK PROVISIONS AND THE NORMALIZATION OF CORPORATE WELFARE BY MARK R. WILSON ; 2. VIRTUE, NECESSITY, AND IRONY IN THE POLITICS OF CIVIL RIGHTS: ORGANIZED BUSINESS AND FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES IN POSTWAR CLEVELAND BY ANTHONY S. CHEN ; 3. MOVING MOUNTAINS: THE BUSINESS OF EVANGELICALISM AND EXTRACTION IN A LIBERAL AGE BY DARREN DOCHUK ; 4. "TAKE GOVERNMENT OUT OF BUSINESS BY PUTTING BUSINESS INTO GOVERNMENT": LOCAL BOOSTERS, NATIONAL CEOS, EXPERTS, AND THE POLITICS OF MID-CENTURY CAPITAL MOBILITY BY ELIZABETH TANDY SHERMER ; 5. THE LIBERAL INVENTION OF THE MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION: DAVID LILIENTHAL AND POSTWAR CAPITALISM BY JASON SCOTT SMITH ; 6. PHARMACEUTICAL POLITICS AND REGULATORY REFORM IN POSTWAR AMERICA BY DOMINIQUE A. TOBBELL ; 7. GAMES OF CHANCE: JIM CROW'S ENTREPRENEURS BET ON 'NEGRO' LAW-AND-ORDER BY N.D.B. CONNOLLY ; 8. THE END OF PUBLIC POWER: PLACE AND THE POSTWAR ELECTRIC UTILITY INDUSTRY BY ANDREW NEEDHAM ; 9. SUPERMARKETS, FREE MARKETS, AND THE PROBLEM OF BUYER POWER IN THE POSTWAR UNITED STATES BY SHANE HAMILTON ; 10. RETHINKING THE POSTWAR CORPORATION: MANAGEMENT, MONOPOLIES, AND MARKETS BY LOUIS HYMAN ; 11. THE POLITICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION: BUSINESS-GOVERNMENT RELATIONS IN THE 1970S AND BEYOND BY MEG JACOBS ; 12. THE CORPORATE MOBILIZATION AGAINST LIBERAL REFORM: BIG BUSINESS DAY, 1980 BY BENJAMIN WATERHOUSE ; EPILOGUE BY KIM PHILLIPS-FEIN AND JULIAN E. ZELIZER
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