American Fair Trade

American Fair Trade

Author: Laura Phillips Sawyer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-01-11

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 1108548040

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Rather than viewing the history of American capitalism as the unassailable ascent of large-scale corporations and free competition, American Fair Trade argues that trade associations of independent proprietors lobbied and litigated to reshape competition policy to their benefit. At the turn of the twentieth century, this widespread fair trade movement borrowed from progressive law and economics, demonstrating a persistent concern with market fairness - not only fair prices for consumers but also fair competition among businesses. Proponents of fair trade collaborated with regulators to create codes of fair competition and influenced the administrative state's public-private approach to market regulation. New Deal partnerships in planning borrowed from those efforts to manage competitive markets, yet ultimately discredited the fair trade model by mandating economy-wide trade rules that sharply reduced competition. Laura Phillips Sawyer analyzes how these efforts to reconcile the American tradition of a well-regulated society with the legacy of Gilded Age of laissez-faire capitalism produced the modern American regulatory state.


Corporatism and Fascism

Corporatism and Fascism

Author: Antonio Costa Pinto

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-02-17

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1315388898

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This book is the first conceptual and comparative empirical work on the relation between corporatism and dictatorships, bringing both fields under a joint conceptual umbrella. It operationalizes the concepts of social and political corporatism, diffusion and critical junctures and their particular application to the study of Fascist-Era dictatorships. The book’s carefully constructed balance between theory and case studies offers an important contribution to the study of dictatorships and corporatism. Through the development of specific indicators in ‘critical junctures’ of regime change and institutionalization, as well as qualitative data based on different sources such as party manifestos, constitutions and constitutional reforms, expert commissions and the legislation that introduces corporatism, this book traces transnational sources of inspiration in different national contexts. By bringing together a number of both established and new voices from across the field, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of fascism, dictatorship and modern European politics.


Corporatism

Corporatism

Author: Jeffrey Grupp

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9789676907202

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Corporatism is the merger of big business with big government. Government is obsessed with corporate profit, in any way needed, regardless of human cost. In corporatism we see the predictions of Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World coming true today in the most subtle and grotesque ways. Through media, business and government, the power elite exercise ownership over the people in all spheres of life - war, health, education, food, entertainment, thought, conversation. This is 'full- spectrum dominance' over the individual human being. Monopolistic mega-corporations control all basic resources and items that world citizens depend on for their daily survival not just food, resource-goods, or medicine, but also things like water, information, transportation, education, and even consciousness. Each of these corporations is controlled by tiny numbers of unelected, militaristic, fascistic labor-lords called corporatists who are outside of media attention and who exercise their power to such an extent that they will do anything including obliterate and destroy the spirit and consciousness of citizens worldwide (including children). This book is an existential, empirical, economic, and psychological study of how corporations dominate the globe to the point that humanity worldwide is reduced to little more than a crushed, defeated mob of uneducated, brainwashed, and tormented beings - who are often tricked into believing they are free, as is the case with middle and upper class Americans.


Redeploying the State

Redeploying the State

Author: H. Aidi

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2008-12-22

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 0230617905

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This study offers a comparative analysis of Latin American and Middle Eastern corporatism by looking at Egypt and Mexico's differing experiences with privatization and showing that how the working class was attached to the regime during the period of state-building shapes leaders institutional options and capabilities for market reform.


Corporatism and Comparative Politics

Corporatism and Comparative Politics

Author: Howard J Wiarda

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-09-16

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1315481030

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Corporatism is the third great ideolgy of modern social and political organization and it is one of the main organizing concepts used in comparative political analysis. This study traces corporatism in history, analyzes its modern practice and shows the rise of corporatism in the US.


The Handbook of Political Sociology

The Handbook of Political Sociology

Author: Thomas Janoski

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-05-23

Total Pages: 844

ISBN-13: 9781139443579

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This Handbook provides a complete survey of the vibrant field of political sociology. Part I explores the theories of political sociology. Part II focuses on the formation, transitions, and regime structure of the state. Part III takes up various aspects of the state that respond to pressures from civil society.


The New Common Wealth

The New Common Wealth

Author: Claudiu Adrian Secara

Publisher: Algora Publishing

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1892941198

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This book examines in a historical perspective the most intriguing dialectic in the Soviet Union's evolution: from socialism to capitalism and back to socialist capitalism It provides a unique interpretation of events unfolding in Eastern Europe within broad historical, economic, military and political contexts. The author predicts that the United States, bastion of "free markets," will be forced to move toward socialistic policies just as the Communist nations inevitably integrated more elements of capitalism into their systems, and he speculates on how these shifts will affect the main players' positions in the global power game. Will U.S. government bailouts bring the U.S. closer to socialism? Were Roosevelt's policies socialistic? Are there limits to the capitalist model, and is there a place for unemployment benefits, Social Security pensions, health insurance and food stamps? If so, why is the "safety net" feared as un-American?