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Uneasy Partners: Big Business in American Politics, 1945-1990
Kim McQuaid
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Paperback. position in the world economy. Series: The American Moment. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; HBJK; HBLW3; JP; KCZ; KJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 368.
"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 ... Read more
"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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
The American Moment
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801846526
SKU
V9780801846526
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About Kim McQuaid
Kim McQuaid is an American historian, educator and writer. He is a Professor Emeritus at Lake Erie College.
Reviews for Uneasy Partners: Big Business in American Politics, 1945-1990
"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. Labor History "A fast-paced, well-written survey... an excellent interpretative essay.-Business Library Review