Capital Gains: Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2017

Capital Gains

Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America

Edited by: Richard R. John and Kim Phillips-Fein

In the series Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812293562

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About this book

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 twentieth century—and today.

Author / Editor information

Richard R. John is Professor of History at Columbia University. Kim Phillips-Fein is Associate Professor in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University.

Reviews

"With Capital Gains, the scholarly push to revive political economy and craft a new history of 20th century business, politics, and capitalism has found its vehicle. No longer can we cast 'business elites' as the thoughtless tools of the capitalist machine. Through rich, compelling archival research and authoritative historiographical analysis, these sophisticated essays make a powerful case for business as a multi-dimensional, ideologically diverse set of historical actors—just as eager to wield governing power as to limit it. To understand how capital gains influence today's global political economy, there is no better place to begin than with this exciting new history of capitalism in the United States."—Benjamin Waterhouse, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

"What is the most productive way to study the history of capitalism? The authors in this volume pursue a multidisciplinary approach and believe in the importance of institutions and public policy. For these reasons, Capital Gains is a valuable contribution to the historiography of the twentieth-century United States."—Kenneth Lipartito, Florida International University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Preface Kim Phillips-Fein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction. Adversarial Relations? Business and Politics in Twentieth- Century America Richard R. John Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
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 Laura Phillips Sawyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Chapter 2. Toward a Civic Welfare State: Business and City Building in the 1920s Daniel Amsterdam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
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 Eric S. Hintz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Chapter 4. Farewell to Progressivism: Th e Second World War and the Privatization of the “Military- Industrial Complex” Mark R. Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
Chapter 5. Beyond the New Deal: Thomas K. McCraw and the Political Economy of Capitalism Richard R. John and Jason Scott Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
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 Tami J. Friedman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Chapter 7. “They Were the Moving Spirits”: Business and Supply- Side Liberalism in the Postwar South Brent Cebul Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Chapter 8. A Fraught Partnership: Business and the Public University Since the Second World War Elizabeth Tandy Shermer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Chapter 10. “What Would Peace in Vietnam Mean for You as an Investor?” Business Executives and the Antiwar Movement, 1967–75 Eric R. Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Chapter 11. Entangled: Civil Rights in Corporate Amer i ca Since 1964 Pamela Walker Laird Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 312
Keywords: American History; Business; American Studies; Business; Economics

eBook

Published: November 17, 2016
ISBN: 9780812293562