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What's Good for Business Business and American Politics since World War II

Phillips-Fein Kim Zelizer Julian E.
Heftet / 2012 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780199754007
Publisert
2012
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
340 gr
Høyde
231 mm
Bredde
150 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
280

Redaktør
Phillips-Fein Kim
Zelizer Julian E.

Om bidragsyterne

Kim Phillips-Fein is an Assistant Professor at the Gallatin School of NYU and is the author of Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan. Julian E. Zelizer is Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton. He is numerous books, including Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security - From World War II to the War on Terrorism and Governing America: The Revival of Political History.

What's Good for Business Business and American Politics since World War II

Phillips-Fein Kim Zelizer Julian E.
Heftet / 2012 / Engelsk
Phillips-Fein Kim Zelizer Julian E.
Heftet / 2012 / Engelsk
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These 12 thoughtful, engaging essays examine the numerous and complex way that business leaders sought to influence politics in the post-WWII period and prompt deeper research onthe political economy. Highly Recommended.

CHOICE

This excellent volume collects the work of a dozen scholars, indicating that we are in the midst of a renaissance of business history, with a new focus on integrating detailed study of business practice with other major aspects of American history.

James Hoopes, Journal of American History

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.
Les mer
This book provides a sweeping interpretation of how business mobilized to influence public policy and elections since World War II.
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
Les mer
"These 12 thoughtful, engaging essays examine the numerous and complex way that business leaders sought to influence politics in the post-WWII period and prompt deeper research onthe political economy. Highly Recommended."--CHOICE "This excellent volume collects the work of a dozen scholars, indicating that we are in the midst of a renaissance of business history, with a new focus on integrating detailed study of business practice with other major aspects of American history."--James Hoopes, Journal of American History
Les mer
Selling point: First book to showcase the generation of scholars who are shaping the reemergent field of political economy and history of capitalism. Selling point: Looks at numerous examples of the interplay of business and politics.
Les mer
Kim Phillips-Fein is an Assistant Professor at the Gallatin School of NYU and is the author of Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan. Julian E. Zelizer is Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton. He is numerous books, including Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security - From World War II to the War on Terrorism and Governing America: The Revival of Political History.
Les mer
Selling point: First book to showcase the generation of scholars who are shaping the reemergent field of political economy and history of capitalism. Selling point: Looks at numerous examples of the interplay of business and politics.
Les mer

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These 12 thoughtful, engaging essays examine the numerous and complex way that business leaders sought to influence politics in the post-WWII period and prompt deeper research onthe political economy. Highly Recommended.

CHOICE

This excellent volume collects the work of a dozen scholars, indicating that we are in the midst of a renaissance of business history, with a new focus on integrating detailed study of business practice with other major aspects of American history.

James Hoopes, Journal of American History

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.
Les mer
This book provides a sweeping interpretation of how business mobilized to influence public policy and elections since World War II.
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
Les mer
"These 12 thoughtful, engaging essays examine the numerous and complex way that business leaders sought to influence politics in the post-WWII period and prompt deeper research onthe political economy. Highly Recommended."--CHOICE "This excellent volume collects the work of a dozen scholars, indicating that we are in the midst of a renaissance of business history, with a new focus on integrating detailed study of business practice with other major aspects of American history."--James Hoopes, Journal of American History
Les mer
Selling point: First book to showcase the generation of scholars who are shaping the reemergent field of political economy and history of capitalism. Selling point: Looks at numerous examples of the interplay of business and politics.
Les mer
Kim Phillips-Fein is an Assistant Professor at the Gallatin School of NYU and is the author of Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan. Julian E. Zelizer is Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton. He is numerous books, including Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security - From World War II to the War on Terrorism and Governing America: The Revival of Political History.
Les mer
Selling point: First book to showcase the generation of scholars who are shaping the reemergent field of political economy and history of capitalism. Selling point: Looks at numerous examples of the interplay of business and politics.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199754007
Publisert
2012
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
340 gr
Høyde
231 mm
Bredde
150 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
280

Redaktør
Phillips-Fein Kim
Zelizer Julian E.

Om bidragsyterne

Kim Phillips-Fein is an Assistant Professor at the Gallatin School of NYU and is the author of Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan. Julian E. Zelizer is Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton. He is numerous books, including Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security - From World War II to the War on Terrorism and Governing America: The Revival of Political History.

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