Small Business Policy and the American Creed
Cover -- SMALL BUSINESS POLICY AND THE AMERICAN CREED -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Chapter 1 HOW DO AMERICAN CORE VALUES INFLUENCE PUBLIC POLICY? -- SMALL BUSINESS AID -- SMALL BUSINESS AID, INTEREST GROUPS, AND INSTITUTIONS -- AMERICAN CORE VALUES AND POLICY EXPLANATION -- CORE VALUES AND PROBLEM DEFINITIONS -- THE RESEARCH APPROACH -- ORGANIZATION OF THE BOOK -- NOTES -- Chapter 2 PROBLEM AND POLICY HERITAGE: THE ANTITRUST TRADITION, DEPRESSION, AND WAR -- THE PROBLEM OF ECONOMIC COMPETITION AND THE ANTITRUST RESPONSE -- Roots of the Antitrust Tradition -- Antitrust in Depression -- War and Its Aftermath -- THE EMERGENCE OF THE VICTIM CAUSAL PERSPECTIVE AND NEW POLICY TACTICS -- New Deal Legacies -- War-Born Causal Perspectives and Policy Tactics -- TOWARD A NEW PROBLEM/POLICY LINK: THE TRUMAN PROPOSAL -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Chapter 3 PROBLEMS OF COMPETITION, OPPORTUNITY, AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FOR A VICTIM: THE SMALL BUSINESS ACT OF 1953 -- THE AGENDA -- THE PROBLEM OF COMPETITION/OPPORTUNITY AND EVALUATIONS OF SMALL BUSINESS -- SMALL BUSINESS PROBLEM DEFINITIONS -- Causal Stories -- Evaluation of Small Business Conditions -- DESIGNING THE LOAN PROGRAM: THE OPPORTUNITY EMPHASIS -- Loan Eligibility -- Loan Amounts -- The Opportunity Legacy -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Chapter 4 PROBLEMS REPRISED: INSTITUTIONALIZING SMALL BUSINESS AID IN THE 1950S -- EXTENDING THE SBA -- MAKING THE SBA PERMANENT -- The Problem of Preserving Competition and Opportunity -- Small Business Problem Definitions -- LAUNCHING THE EQUITY AND LONG-TERM CAPITAL PROGRAM -- The Agenda -- Competition/Opportunity Reprised -- The Small Business Problem of Equity and Long-Term Capital -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Chapter 5 PROBLEMS ADRIFT: EXPANDING WITHOUT INNOVATION IN THE 1960S AND 1970S -- THE STATE OF THE COMPETITION/OPPORTUNITY PROBLEM AND THE POLICY DOLDRUMS.
