big business in American democracy from the Great Depression to the great recession Hoopes, James 1944- creator ebrary, Inc text bibliography Electronic books. nju New Brunswick, N.J Rutgers University Press c2011 2011 monographic eng

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ix, 234 p. : ill. The corporate American dream at its height and in its origins -- The corporate American dream -- Corporate and national character -- From public purpose to private profit -- Corporations as enemies of the free market -- Corporate failure and government fix -- Corporate crashes -- Managers versus markets -- Corporations blow their chance to end the depression -- Roosevelt's confused anti-corporatism -- The corporation strikes back -- The right to manage -- Corporations recover their moral authority -- Killing the unions softly -- Creating Reagan and his voters -- What manner of man(ager)? -- Masking the arrogance of power -- Responsibility versus profit at general motors -- Critics of managerial character -- JFK's pyrrhic victory over U.S. steel -- The corporation in the wilderness again -- McNamara and the staffers -- The false confidence of the anti-corporatists -- Corporate America loses world supremacy -- Laying the groundwork for the corporation's cultural comeback -- Leadership -- Managing by values -- Creating the concept of corporate culture -- Inventing the leadership development industry -- Reagan aids corporations by bashing government -- Entrepreneurship -- Supply siders versus the big corporation -- Reengineering the corporation -- George W. Bush, Enron, and the great recession -- Can the corporate American dream be saved?. James Hoopes. Includes bibliographical references and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. n-us--- Corporate culture United States History Business and politics United States Case studies Political ethics United States Leadership United States History United States Politics and government 2001-2009 United States Moral conditions HD58.7 .H646 2011eb 338.0973 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10535576 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10535576 CaPaEBR 101217 ebr10535576