Product Description: "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...read more

Confronts the military, social, and political malaise of the Vietnam War and Watergate years

Product Description: The business community has been the Number One Enemy of welfare programmes according to most historians. History credits liberals and bureaucrats with bravely forging our social welfare system in the face of pressure and strident protest from businessmen...read more

Product Description: Creating the Welfare State investigates how private business and public bureaucracy worked together to create the structure of much of the modern welfare state in America. Covering the period from the 1980s to the present, this important volume employs interdisciplinary techniques to demonstrate how politics, economics, law, and social theory merged over the course of a century of policy formulation and implementation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is a reprint of a previously published doctoral dissertation. It describes and analyzes the reformist experimentations undertaken by Capitalists from 1886 to 1960.