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Record Nr.

UNINA9910556894203321

Autore

Maher Stephen <1985->

Titolo

Corporate capitalism and the integral state : general electric and a century of American power / / Stephen Maher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

9783030837723

9783030837716

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (401 pages)

Collana

Marx, Engels, and Marxisms Ser.

Disciplina

338.740973

Soggetti

Corporate power - United States

Business and politics - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Series Foreword -- Titles Published -- Titles Forthcoming -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for Corporate Capitalism  and the Integral State -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1 The Making of the Integral State -- Neo-Pluralism and the Capitalist State -- The Theory of the Integral State -- Institutional Marxism -- The Case of General Electric -- A Note on Sources -- 2 The Making of General Electric in the Era of Finance Capital -- Edison, Morgan, and the Creation of GE -- Managerial Expansion and the Incubator of Finance Capital -- The New American State -- 3 The Formation of the State-Capital Complex -- From the Great War to the New Capitalism -- Capitalist Crisis, State Formation, and the "Planning Impulse" -- 4 The Golden Age of Managerialism and the State Industrial Policy System -- Managing War Production -- The Industrial Policy System and Corporate Decentralization -- The Golden Age of Capitalism and "The New GE" -- The State, Managerial Hegemony, and the New Company Unionism -- General Electric, the National Security State, and the New Right -- 5 From Class Interest to National Interest: General Electric and the Making of an Informal Empire -- Relative Autonomy, the Integral State, and the National Interest -- The State Department and the Ideological State Apparatus -- American Hegemony, Class Power, and the Internationalization of the Integral



State -- Capitalist Dissent at Home to the New Imperial State -- Antitrust, MNCs, and the Contradictions of "Free Trade" -- 6 The Financialization and Internationalization of General Electric -- The Great Electrical Conspiracy and the Crisis of the State-Capital Relationship -- GE and the Crisis of Managerialism -- GE and the Emergence of Financial Hegemony -- 7 The Business Roundtable and the End of Managerialism -- The Pay Board and the Construction Users Anti-Inflation Roundtable.

The March Club and the Business Roundtable -- Business Organization and the Economic Policy Apparatus -- The Business Roundtable and the Fight for Deregulation -- The Formation of the Neoliberal State in the Carter years -- Finance, Industry, and Neoliberal Hegemony -- 8 From Capital Controls to Free Trade: The Making of the Internationalized Neoliberal State -- The End of Bretton Woods and the Renewal of State-Business Trade Collaboration -- Relative Autonomy and the National Interest -- The Integral State Trade Apparatus -- The Department of Commerce and the President's Export Council -- Corporate Power and the Internationalized Neoliberal State -- 9 General Electric, Financialization, and the Neoliberal Integral State -- Political and Economic Origins of Neoliberalism -- Jack Welch and "Shareholder Value" -- Bibliography -- Index.