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Capital gains : business and politics in twentieth-century America / edited by Richard R. John and Kim Phillips-Fein.

Appealing to historians working in the fields of business history, political history, and the history of capitalism, Capital Gains highlights the causes, character, and consequences of business activism and underscores the centrality of business to any full understanding of the politics of the twent...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: John, Richard R., 1959- (Editor), Phillips-Fein, Kim (Editor)
Other title:Capital gains (University of Pennsylvania Press)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., [2017]
Edition:1st edition.
Series:Hagley perspectives on business and culture.
Subjects:
Business and politics > United States > History > 20th century.
Industrial policy > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Economic policy > History > 20th century.
Business and politics.
Economic policy.
Industrial policy.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Adversarial relations? : business and politics in twentieth-century America / Richard R. John
  • Trade associations, state building, and the Sherman Act : the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1912-25 / Laura Phillips Sawyer
  • Toward a civic welfare state : business and city building in the 1920s / Daniel Amsterdam
  • The "Monopoly" Hearings, its critics, and the limits of patent reform in the New Deal / Eric S. Hintz
  • Farewell to progressivism : the Second World War and the privatization of the "military-industrial complex" / Mark R. Wilson
  • Beyond the New Deal : Thomas K. McCraw and the political economy of capitalism / Richard R. John and Jason Scott Smith
  • "Free enterprise" or federal aid? : the business response to economic restructuring in the long 1950s / Tami J. Friedman
  • They were the moving spirits? : business and supply-side liberalism in the postwar South
  • Brent Cebul
  • A fraught partnership: business and the public university since the Second World War / Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
  • The triumph of social responsibility in the National Association of Manufacturers in the 1950s / Jennifer Delton
  • "What would peace in Vietnam mean for you as an investor?" : business executives and the antiwar movement, 1967-75 / Eric R. Smith
  • Entangled : civil rights in corporate America since 1964 / Pamela Walker Laird.

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