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"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.
The Johns Hopkins University Press
McQuaid successfully describes the evolving relationship between big government and big business through the crises of both hot and cold wars....An interesting useful study.
| Foreword | ||
| Preface | ||
| Prologue: August 1945 | 1 | |
| 1 | Defining Postwar Normalcy: The Fight over Labor Law | 18 |
| 2 | The Path to the Marshall Plan | 36 |
| 3 | Oil: Cold War Symbiosis at an Apex | 48 |
| 4 | Korea, Communism, and Corruption: The Path to Eisenhower | 59 |
| 5 | Eisenhower and the American Corporate Dream | 73 |
| 6 | Corporations on the New Frontier | 102 |
| 7 | The Time of Troubles Begins: From Lyndon Johnson to Gerald Ford | 125 |
| 8 | Corporate Resurgence from Carter to Reagan | 151 |
| 9 | The Reagan Revolution and Afterward | 172 |
| Postscript: New Year's Day 1992 | 186 | |
| Abbreviations | 197 | |
| Bibliographical Essay | 199 | |
| Index | 219 |
Overview
"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 ...