Corporate dreams : big business in American democracy from the Great Depression to the great recession / James Hoopes.
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- 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?