American capitalism : social thought and political economy in the twentieth century / / edited by Nelson Lichtenstein.

• Superior document: Politics and culture in modern America
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Lichtenstein, Nelson.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Politics and culture in modern America.
• Physical Description: vi, 377 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

The postcapitalist vision in twentieth-century American social thought / Howard Brick -- To Moscow and back : American social scientists and the concept of convergence / David C. Engerman -- Clark Kerr : from the industrial to the knowledge economy / Paddy Riley -- John Kenneth Galbraith : liberalism and the politics of cultural critique / Kevin Mattson -- The prophet of post-Fordism : Peter Drucker and the legitimation of the corporation / Nils Gilman -- C. Wright Mills and American social science / Daniel Geary -- C.L.R. James and the theory of state capitalism / Christopher Phelps -- Oliver C. Cox and the roots of world systems theory / Christopher A. McAuley -- Feminism, women's history, and the American social thought at midcentury / Daniel Horowitz -- The road less traveled : reconsidering the political writings of Friedrich von Hayek / Juliet Williams -- The politics of the rich and rich : postwar investigations of foundations and the rise of the philanthropic right / Alice O'Connor -- American counterrevolutionary : Lemuel Ricketts Boulware and General Electric, 1950-1960 / Kimberly Phillips-Fein -- Godless capitalism : Ayn Rand and the conservative movement / Jennifer Burns.