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Capital Gains.

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. T...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: John, Richard R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2016.
Colección:Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface / Phillips-Fein, Kim
  • Introduction. Adversarial Relations? Business and Politics in Twentieth- Century America / John, Richard R.
  • PART I. THE PROGRESSIVE ERA AND THE 1920S
  • Chapter 1. Trade Associations, State Building, and the Sherman Act: Th e U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1912-25 / Sawyer, Laura Phillips
  • Chapter 2. Toward a Civic Welfare State: Business and City Building in the 1920s / Amsterdam, Daniel
  • PART II. THE NEW DEAL AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR
  • Chapter 3. Th e "Mono poly" Hearings, Th eir Critics, and the Limits of Patent Reform in the New Deal / Hintz, Eric S.
  • Chapter 4. Farewell to Progressivism: Th e Second World War and the Privatization of the "Military- Industrial Complex" / Wilson, Mark R.
  • Chapter 5. Beyond the New Deal: Thomas K. McCraw and the Political Economy of Capitalism / John, Richard R. / Smith, Jason Scott
  • PART III. THE POSTWAR ERA: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
  • Chapter 6. "Free Enterprise" or Federal Aid? Th e Business Response to Economic Restructuring in the Long 1950s / Friedman, Tami J.
  • Chapter 7. "They Were the Moving Spirits": Business and Supply- Side Liberalism in the Postwar South / Cebul, Brent
  • Chapter 8. A Fraught Partnership: Business and the Public University Since the Second World War / Shermer, Elizabeth Tandy
  • 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
  • Chapter 10. "What Would Peace in Vietnam Mean for You as an Investor?" Business Executives and the Antiwar Movement, 1967-75 / Smith, Eric R.
  • Chapter 11. Entangled: Civil Rights in Corporate Amer i ca Since 1964 / Laird, Pamela Walker
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index