Corporate dreams : big business in American democracy from the Great Depression to the great recession / James Hoopes.
2011
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Title
Corporate dreams : big business in American democracy from the Great Depression to the great recession / James Hoopes.
Published
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2011]
Copyright
©2011
Call Number
HD58.7 .H646 2011
ISBN
9780813551302 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813551307 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813551307 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Description
ix, 234 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)693750980
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
1
pt. I
THE CORPORATE AMERICAN DREAM AT ITS HEIGHT AND IN ITS ORIGINS
1.
The Corporate American Dream
9
2.
Corporate and National Character
15
3.
From Public Purpose to Private Profit
22
4.
Corporations as Enemies of the Free Market
27
pt. II
CORPORATE FAILURE AND GOVERNMENT FIX
5.
Corporate Crashes
35
6.
Managers versus Markets
40
7.
Corporations Blow Their Chance to End the Depression
45
8.
Roosevelt's Confused Anticorporatism
51
pt. III
THE CORPORATION STRIKES BACK
9.
The Right to Manage
61
10.
Corporations Recover Their Moral Authority
67
11.
Killing the Unions Softly
72
12.
Creating Reagan and His Voters
76
pt. IV
WHAT MANNER OF MAN(AGER)?
13.
Masking the Arrogance of Power
87
14.
Responsibility versus Profit at General Motors
93
15.
Critics of Managerial Character
100
16.
JFK's Pyrrhic Victory over U.S. Steel
106
pt. V
THE CORPORATION IN THE WILDERNESS AGAIN
17.
McNamara and the Staffers
115
18.
The False Confidence of the Anticorporatists
122
19.
Corporate America Loses World Supremacy
130
20.
Laying the Groundwork for the Corporation's Cultural Comeback
137
pt. VI
LEADERSHIP
21.
Managing by Values
145
22.
Creating the Concept of Corporate Culture
152
23.
Inventing the Leadership Development Industry
156
24.
Reagan Aids Corporations by Bashing Government
163
pt. VII
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
25.
Supply-Siders versus the Big Corporation
173
26.
Reengineering the Corporation
180
27.
George W. Bush, Enron, and the Great Recession
189
28.
Can the Corporate American Dream Be Saved?
198
Notes
209
Index
219