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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460457303321

Autore

Bean Jonathan J.

Titolo

Big government and affirmative action : the scandalous history of the Small Business Administration / / Jonathan J. Bean

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2001

©2001

ISBN

0-8131-7097-4

0-8131-5864-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

354.2/799/0973

Soggetti

Small business - Government policy - United States

Affirmative action programs - United States - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Politics and patronage -- Small business on the New Frontier -- The entrepreneurial era -- Crisis and consolidation -- The agony of Hilary Sandoval -- The small scandal administration -- Small business in an age of big government -- Eternal life.

Sommario/riassunto

David Stockman, Ronald Reagan's budget director, proclaimed the Small Business Administration a ""billion-dollar waste -- a rathole,"" and set out to abolish the agency. His scathing critique was but the latest attack on an agency better known as the ""Small Scandal Administration."" Loans to criminals, government contracts for minority ""fronts,"" the classification of American Motors as a small business, Whitewater, and other scandals -- the Small Business Administration has lurched from one embarrassment to another. Despite the scandals and the policy failures, the SBA thrives and small bus