Big Government and Affirmative Action: The Scandalous History of the Small Business Administration

" David Stockman, Ronald Reagan's budget director, proclaimed the Small Business Administration a "billion-dollar waste-a rathole," and set out to abolish the agency. His scathing critique was but the latest attack on an agency better known as the "Small Scandal Administration." Loans to criminals, government contracts for minority "fronts," the classification of American Motors as a small business, Whitewater, and other scandals-the Small Business Administration has lurched from one embarrassme

Author: Jonathan Bean
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 08/03/2001
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.38h x 6.38w x 0.84d
ISBN: 9780813121871

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 07/01/2001 pg. 1956
Choice 12/01/2001 pg. 759

About the Author

Jonathan Bean, Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and professor of history at Southern Illinois University, is the author of Big Government and Affirmative Action: The Scandalous History of the Small Business Administration and Beyond the Broker State: Federal Policies toward Small Business, 1936--1961.

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