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What's Good for Business: Business and Politics Since World War II
What's Good for Business: Business and Politics Since World War II
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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.
Author: Kim Phillips-Fein
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/10/2012
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780199754007
Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2012
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.
Author: Kim Phillips-Fein
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/10/2012
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780199754007
Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2012
About the Author
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.
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