Corporate Dreams: Big Business in American Democracy from the Great Depression to the Great Recession

Index

Index 219 academia, 123 accounting, 45, 193, 194 Adams, Charles Francis, 25 Adams, James Truslow, 11–12 Adams, Sherman, 117 Adelphia, 190, 191 African Americans, 12 agency costs, 140 agency problem, 23 agriculture, 17–18 airlines, 138, 165 Amazon, 181 American colonies, 3, 23 American Dream: and anti-union legislation, 72; and Burns, 147; and Carter, 137; complexity of, 17; and corporatism and democracy, 15–16; and freedom, 11, 12; as goal, 15; and government control, 9, 32, 35, 38, 56, 179; and inflation, 71; and Japanese competition, 135; and John F. Kennedy, 106; and labor unions, 9–10; and manufacturing, 19; and New Deal labor legislation, 3; and prosperity vs. democratic freedom, 155; revival of, 2; rise of, 1, 9–14; and Sloan, 65–66, 67; and unions, 75; and Wagner Act, 52; and Walmart, 187 American Express, 130 American International Group (AIG), 195, 196 American Revolution, 3 Anthracite Strike (1902), 37–38 anticorporatism: ad hoc, 63; and American colonies, 23; and Boulware, 77; in cultural discussions, 123; and democracy, 2; and economy, 4; and entrepreneurship, 4, 5, 201; and Franklin Roosevelt, 52; of Galbraith, 124–128; and Great Depression, 3; and health care reform, 200; of liberals, 136; moderate, 2, 4, 5, 198–199, 206, 207; modern, 25; of Moore, 186; need for, 205–206; and New Deal, 52; of New Left, 124; post-Revolutionary, 3, 24–25; reactive vs. wise, 4–5; and Reagan era, 163, 164; and Schlesinger, 131; in youth culture and among intellectuals, 122–123 anti-institutionalism, 128 anti-Semitism, 89, 94 antitrust laws, 3, 109. See also Sherman Anti-Trust Act arrogance, 89, 150, 160, 189; of managers, 3, 105, 117; of McNamara, 118 Arthur Andersen, 192 Asia, factories in, 203, 204 Atomic Energy Commission, 89 AT&T, 131, 133 automation, 101 automobile industry: and anticorporatism, 4–5; and assembly line, 42; Japanese, 4, 133–135, 137; automobile industry (continued) loss of supremacy in, 3–4, 121, 140; near collapse of, 152; postwar potential of, 64, 65; and quality control, 132; and United Automobile Workers, 54–56; U.S., 133 Automobile Manufacturers Association, 62 autonomy, 126 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 29 Bank of the United States, First, 19, 24 Bank of the United States, Second, 24–25 bankruptcy, 27, 28, 29, 191 banks/banking, 165; commercial, 45; corporate charters for, 24; and Glass-Steagall Act, 45; and Great Recession, 196; and home ownership, 194–195; investment, 45; Japanese, 134; and recessions, 38; regulation of, 10, 194 Barnard, Chester, 92, 93, 145, 146, 155; The Functions of the Executive, 91 Baruch, Bernard, 46, 47, 48, 56 Bear Stearns, 195, 196 Bell, Daniel, The End of Ideology, 102–103, 105 Bell Labs, 131–132 Bennis, Warren, 147; On Becoming a Leader, 159–160, 161–162 Berle, Adolf, 163; The 20th Century Capitalist Revolution, 104; The Modern Corporation and Private Property, 51–52, 62, 93, 103, 104, 125, 135, 139, 142 Bethlehem Steel, 109–110 big business, 4, 32, 51, 81, 82 Blanchard, Ken, Managing by Values, 149–150, 153 Blough, Roger M., 106, 107–108, 110, 111; “Free Man and the Corporation,” 122 Boston, social mobility in, 36 Boston Manufacturing Company, 20, 26 Boulware, Lemuel, 76–81, 82–84, 103, 108, 141, 167, 207 Bowling for Columbine (film), 186 Brains Trust, 45, 47, 51 Brown, Donaldson, 95 Brown, Moses, 19 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, 13 Bryan, William Jennings, 83 Buckley, William F., 82 Building Trades Council, 47 Burnham, James, 95, 100, 105; The Managerial Revolution, 93–94 Burns, James MacGregor, Leadership, 147–149, 150, 151, 157, 164, 190 Bush, George H. W., 165, 180 Bush, George W., 45, 189–190, 193, 195–196 canals, 25, 27 capitalism, 16; and Baruch, 46; and Bell, 103; and Berle, 104; blame for injustices of, 87; and Burnham, 93; and China, 187; Galbraith on, 102; and George W. Bush, 190; and Great Depression, 46; industrial, 27; and Jefferson, 20; and Mayo, 100; as mercantile phenomenon, 27; and Mills, 103, 104, 105; and New Dealers, 93; post-Revolutionary, 19; and Stimson, 64 Capitalism: A Love Story (film), 186 Carlton, C. C., 62 Carnegie, Andrew, 37 cartels, anticompetitive, 29 Carter, Jimmy, 137, 146, 163, 165, 166 Census Bureau, 132 CEOs, 2, 142, 145; and M-form, 95, 96, 116, 117; as overpaid, 192; and Index 220 postwar higher education, 11; superstar, 182, 192; suspicion of, 5 Champy, James, Reengineering the Corporation, 181–182, 183 character: development of, 12, 17...