{"product_id":"capital-gains-9780812224481","title":"Capital Gains","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecent events-the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and efforts to increase the minimum wage, among others-have driven a tremendous surge of interest in the political power of business. Capital Gains collects some of the most innovative new work in the field. The chapters explore the influence of business on American politics in the twentieth century at the federal, state, and municipal levels. From corporate spending on city governments in the 1920s to business support for public universities in the postwar period, and from business opposition to the Vietnam War to the corporate embrace of civil rights, the contributors reveal an often surprising portrait of the nation's economic elite.   Contrary to popular mythology, business leaders have not always been libertarian or rigidly devoted to market fundamentalism. Before, during, and after the New Deal, important parts of the business world sought instead to try to shape what the state could accomp\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCapital Gains\u003c\/i\u003e provides nuanced and reasoned assessments which combine to form a great contribution to the history of capitalism and the shifting U.S. political economy.\" * \u003ci\u003eReviews in American History\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"With \u003ci\u003eCapital Gains: Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America\u003c\/i\u003e, Richard John and Kim Phillips-Fein have brought together a collection of important essays on the relationship of business and politics in the twentieth century. Moving well beyond portrayals of business leaders as robber barons or industrial statesmen, the chapters, which proceed in chronological fashion, range in focus from local boosterism to military spending to corporate civil rights. . . . Taken as a whole, the authors sound a clarion call for the new kinds of questions scholars are asking about modern political economy.\" * \u003ci\u003eBusiness History Review\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"An outstanding book. The volume is sound from a scientific perspective, grounded in primary sources and wide archival research, and, at the same time, contributes remarkably to our knowledge in this field. This is due both to the new empirical evidence provided, and to the fact that it builds on different disciplines such as political history, business history, political science, historical sociology, and history of capitalism. This multidisciplinary attitude allows the reader to reconstruct effectively the complexity of businessmen's approach to the political world, as well as improving our understanding of government interaction with business elites.\" * \u003ci\u003eThe Economic History Review\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"The essays collected for \u003ci\u003eCapital Gains\u003c\/i\u003e are eminently readable. Each stands on its own as a fascinating snapshot into topics as varied as antitrust and patent law, the public-university system, anti-Vietnam protests, and the history of workplace diversity initiatives. More importantly, these essays together help to contextualize the rise of corporate power in the twentieth-century United States.\" * \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Interdisciplinary History\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"With \u003ci\u003eCapital Gains\u003c\/i\u003e, the scholarly push to revive political economy and craft a new history of twentieth 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 multidimensional, ideologically diverse set of historical actors.\" * Benjamin Waterhouse, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill *\u003cbr\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003eCapital Gains\u003c\/i\u003e is a valuable contribution to the historiography of the twentieth-century United States.\" * Kenneth Lipartito, Florida International University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e —Kim Phillips-Fein\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Adversarial Relations? Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America\u003cbr\u003e —Richard R. John\u003cbr\u003e PART I. THE PROGRESSIVE ERA AND THE 1920s\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Trade Associations, State Building, and the Sherman Act: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1912-25\u003cbr\u003e —Laura Phillips Sawyer\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Toward a Civic Welfare State: Business and City Building in the 1920s\u003cbr\u003e —Daniel Amsterdam\u003cbr\u003e PART II. THE NEW DEAL AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. The \"Monopoly\" Hearings, Its Critics, and the Limits of Patent Reform in the New Deal\u003cbr\u003e —Eric S. Hintz\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Farewell to Progressivism: The Second World War and the Privatization of the \"Military-Industrial Complex\"\u003cbr\u003e —Mark R. Wilson\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Beyond the New Deal: Thomas K. McCraw and the Political Economy of Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e —Richard R. John and Jason Scott Smith\u003cbr\u003e PART III. THE POSTWAR ERA: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. \"Free Enterprise\" or Federal Aid? The Business Response to Economic Restructuring in the Long 1950s\u003cbr\u003e —Tami J. Friedman\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. \"They Were the Moving Spirits\": Business and Supply-Side Liberalism in the Postwar South\u003cbr\u003e —Brent Cebul\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. A Fraught Partnership: Business and the Public University Since the Second World War\u003cbr\u003e —Elizabeth Tandy Shermer\u003cbr\u003e PART IV. THE POSTWAR ERA: LIBERALISM AND ITS CRITICS\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. The Triumph of Social Responsibility in the National Association of Manufacturers in the 1950s\u003cbr\u003e —Jennifer Delton\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. \"What Would Peace in Vietnam Mean for You as an Investor?\" Business Executives and the Antiwar Movement, 1967-75\u003cbr\u003e —Eric R. Smith\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11. Entangled: Civil Rights in Corporate America Since 1964\u003cbr\u003e —Pamela Walker Laird\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e * * * * *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405706436951,"sku":"9780812224481","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812224481.jpg?v=1730493346","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/capital-gains-9780812224481","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}