Uneasy Partners
Big Business in American Politics, 1945-1990
Gebonden Engels 1994 9780801846519Samenvatting
This text surveys the close ties that have formed between big business and government in the period from World War II to the present. McQuaid explains that government needs business to make and implement key economic and business-related decisions. Business needs government to gain advantages over labour and markets. The defining characteristics of this business-government relationship form the focal point for each of this book's chapters. The author first examines the 1945-60 transition period, discussing Eisenhower's domestic policies, foreign aid and the oil market. He explores the rapid expansion of government under the Democratic administrations of the 1960s and discusses the Republican retrenchment and the Reagan administration's pro-business agenda in the 1980s. Finally, he assesses the legacy of the Reagan policies and evaluates the current US position in the world economy.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
Preface
Prologue: August 1945
Chapter 1. Defining Postwar Normalcy: The Fight Over Labor Law
Chapter 2. The Path to the Marshall Plan
Chapter 3. Oil: Cold War Symbiosis at an Apex
Chapter 4. Korea, Communism, and Corruption: The Path to Eisenhower
Chapter 5. Eisenhower and the American Corporate Dream
Chapter 6. Corporations on the New Frontier
Chapter 7. The Time of Troubles Begins: From Lyndon Johnson to Gerald Ford
Chapter 8. Corporate Resurgence from Carter to Reagan
Chapter 9. The Reagan Revolution and Afterward
Postscript: New Year's Day, 1992
Abbreviations
Bibliographical Essay
Index
Rubrieken
- advisering
- algemeen management
- coaching en trainen
- communicatie en media
- economie
- financieel management
- inkoop en logistiek
- internet en social media
- it-management / ict
- juridisch
- leiderschap
- marketing
- mens en maatschappij
- non-profit
- ondernemen
- organisatiekunde
- personal finance
- personeelsmanagement
- persoonlijke effectiviteit
- projectmanagement
- psychologie
- reclame en verkoop
- strategisch management
- verandermanagement
- werk en loopbaan