Screen LibraryCorporate dreams：big business in American democracy from the Great Depression to the great recession
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Rutgers University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New Brunswick, N.J. |
| Publication Dates: | c2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | ix, 234 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780813551302 (hbk.) 0813551307 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | F279 |
| CLC: | F279.712.9 |
| Call Number: | F279.712.9/H788 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. Corporate American dream -- Corporate and national character -- From public purpose to private profit -- Corporations as enemies of the free market -- Corporate crashes -- Managers versus markets -- Corporations blow their chance to end the depression -- Roosevelt's confused anti-corporatism -- Right to manage -- Corporations recover their moral authority -- Killing the unions softly -- Creating Reagan and his voters -- Masking the arrogance of power -- Responsibility versus profit at General Motors -- Critics of managerial character -- : JFK's pyrrhic victory over U.S. steel -- McNamara and Public trust in corporations plummeted in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, when "Lehman Brothers" and "General Motors" became dirty words for many Americans. In Corporate Dreams, James Hoopes argues that Americans still place too much faith in corporations and, especially, in the idea of "values-based leadership" favored by most CEOs. The danger of corporations, he suggests, lies not just in their economic power, but also in how their confused and undemocratic values are infecting Americans' visions of good governance. Corporate Dreams proposes that Americans need to radically rethink |