Capitalism in Contention

Business Leaders and Political Economy in Modern Britain

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

AvJonathan Boswell,James Peters

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Capitalism in Contention examines the ideas of British business leaders on political, economic and social issues since 1960. Using unexplored records, interviews and both narrative and conceptual approaches, it sheds light on the Wilson, Heath and Thatcher periods from business points of view, on the 'mixed economy' and the 'New Right', the peak business bodies (CBI, BIM, IOD etc), and business-government relationships. Although the business ideas were often muffled or secreted, they made distinctive contributions to both public policy and thinking about 'capitalism'. The authors highlight three main ideological tendencies of elite business opinion, 'revisionism', 'liberationism' and reconstructionism'. These saw business respectively as adaptive partner in a pluralist system, pivot and liberator, and focus of social reconstruction, and their struggle for influence forms a central theme. This 1997 book will be of absorbing interest to students of politics, modern history and business, and to policy makers as well as concerned citizens.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1997-11-06
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt400 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor266
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9780521588041

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1. Business social ideas in the making; 2. An adapted, moderated capitalism: the anatomy of revisionism; 3. Cooperation or conflict? Business and the Labour government, 1964–70; 4. Liberationist capitalism in the wilderness, 1960–75; 5. The peaks and precipices of revisionism, 1969–74; 6. Sytemic change in capitalism? The reconstructionists; 7. Turmoil, realignment and recovery: British business 1974–9; 8. Business and early Thatcherism; 9. New orthodoxy? Muffled dissent?; 10. The significance of business ideology.

'What a relief to have this book. I found its original and vivid presentation of the ideas of business timely, scholarly and stimulating. We need to have the issues Boswell and Peters bring back into focus debated again and again. How do we reconcile capitalism and democracy? What is the role of Business trying to behave as Citizen in a globalising society? Other cultures and other democracies will be struggling with these ideas of capitalism in contention.' Sir Peter Parker