Uneasy Partners

Big Business in American Politics, 1945-1990
Erscheinungsjahr 1993
ISBN: 978-0-8018-4652-6
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 331 g

Reihe: The American Moment

"Businessmen are politicians in America," writes Kim McQuaid, "and politicians are businessmen." Today, in areas as diverse as home mortgages, high technology, and Smart Bombs, the private and public sectors are working together to perform tasks that each is unable to do alone. In Uneasy Partners McQuaid surveys the close ties that have formed between big business and government in the period from World War II to the present.

Government needs business, McQuaid explains, to make and implement key economic and business-related decisions. Business needs government to gain advantages over labor and markets. The defining characteristics of this business-government relationship form the focal point for each of the book's chapters. McQuaid 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. He 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 U.S. position in the world economy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mcquaid, Kim

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
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

Über Autor(innen)

Mcquaid, Kim
Kim McQuaid is an American historian, educator and writer. He is a Professor Emeritus at Lake Erie College.