What's good for business: business and American politics since World War II

Abstract

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction: What's Good for Business; 1. The Advantages of Obscurity: World War II Tax Carryback Provisions and the Normalization of Corporate Welfare; 2. Virtue, Necessity, and Irony in the Politics of Civil Rights: Organized Business and Fair Employment Practices in Postwar Cleveland; 3. Moving Mountains: The Business of Evangelicalism and Extraction in a Liberal Age; 4. "Take Government out of Business by Putt ing Business into Government": Local Boosters, National CEOs, Experts, and the Politics of Midcentury Capital Mobility