American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyight Page......Page 5
Table of Contents
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Introduction: Social Theory and Capitalist Reality in the American Century
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Part I: Theorizing Twentieth-Century American Capitalism
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Chapter 1. The Postcapitalist Vision in Twentieth-Century American Social Thought
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Chapter 2. To Moscow and Baclz: American Socinl Scientists and the Concept of Convergence
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Part II: Liberalism and Its Social Agenda
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Chapter 3. Clark Kerr: From the Industrial to the Knowledg Eeconomy
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Chapter 4. John Kenneth Galbraith: Liberalism and the Politics of Cultural Critique
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Chapter 5. The Prophet of Post-Fordism: Peter Druclzer and the Legitimation of the Corporation
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Part III: A Critique from the Left
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Chapter 6. C. Wright Mills and American Social Science
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Chapter 7. C. L. R. Jnmes and the Theor! of Stnte Capitalism
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Chapter 8. Oliver C. Cox and the Roots of World Systems Theory
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Chapter 9. Feminism, Women's History, and American Social Thoughtnt at Midcentury
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Part IV: The Rise of the Right
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Chapter 10. The Rond Less Traveled: Reconsidering the Political Writings of Friedrich von Hayek
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Chapter 11. The Politics of Rich and Rich: Postwar Investigntions of Foundntions and the Rise of the Philnnthropic Right
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Chapter 12. American Counterrevolutionary: Lerrluel Rickettr Boulware and Genera1 Electric, 1930–1960
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Chapter 13. Godless Capitalism: Ayn Rand and the Conservative Movement
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Notes......Page 298
Contributors......Page 368
Index......Page 372
Acknowledgments......Page 386