书目名称 | Corporate Conservatives Go to War |
副标题 | How the National Ass |
编辑 | Charlie Whitham |
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概述 | Examines the meticulous planning during World War II of US business conservatives to advance the interests of private capitalism in the post-war era.Locates the influence of corporate conservatives in |
丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in American Economic History |
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描述 | .World War II presented a unique opportunity for American business to improve its reputation after years of censure for inflicting the Great Depression upon the nation. No employers’ organization worked harder or devoted greater resources to reviving business prestige during the war than the National Association of Manufacturers, which spent millions of dollars on promoting the indispensability of private enterprise to the successful mobilization of the American economy in an uncompromising multi-media campaign which spanned the factory floor to the movie theatre. Now, using unpublished primary sources, the full extent of the NAM’s wartime mission to raise the stature of American business in the post-war era is revealed. During the war the NAM erected a vast structure of research on an unprecedented scale numbering more than one hundred persons dedicated to planning the best solutions for restoring American ‘free enterprise’ capitalism after the war in a direct challenge tothe ‘liberal’ prescriptions of the reigning administration. These studies were painstakingly assembled and widely distributed and served as a complimentary arm to the better-known pro-business propaganda message |
出版日期 | Book 2020 |
关键词 | American economic history; Economics of World War Two; Business history; Post-war economics; National As |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43908-8 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-43910-1 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-43908-8Series ISSN 2662-3900 Series E-ISSN 2662-3919 |
issn_series | 2662-3900 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020 |