Capital Gains : : Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America / / ed. by Richard R. John, Kim Phillips-Fein.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Amsterdam, Daniel,; Cebul, Brent,; Friedman, Tami J.,; Hintz, Eric S.,; John, Richard R.,; Laird, Pamela Walker,; Phillips-Fein, Kim,; Sawyer, Laura Phillips,; Shermer, Elizabeth Tandy,; Smith, Eric R.,; Smith, Jason Scott,; Wilson, Mark R.,
• HerausgeberIn: John, Richard R.,; Phillips-Fein, Kim,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction. Adversarial Relations? Business and Politics in Twentieth- Century America
• 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
• Chapter 2. Toward a Civic Welfare State: Business and City Building in the 1920s
• 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
• Chapter 4. Farewell to Progressivism: Th e Second World War and the Privatization of the “Military- Industrial Complex”
• Chapter 5. Beyond the New Deal: Thomas K. McCraw and the Political Economy of Capitalism
• 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
• Chapter 7. “They Were the Moving Spirits”: Business and Supply- Side Liberalism in the Postwar South
• Chapter 8. A Fraught Partnership: Business and the Public University Since the Second World War
• 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
• Chapter 11. Entangled: Civil Rights in Corporate Amer i ca Since 1964
• Notes
• Contributors
• Index