- The Oxford Handbook of Business and Government
- Preface
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Overview
- Political Science: Perspectives on Business and Government
- Economics: Economic Theories of the Firm, Business, and Government
- Law and Business
- Business Studies: The Global Dynamics of Business–State Relations
- Varieties of Capitalism and Business
- The Global Firm: The Problem of the Giant Firm in Democratic Capitalism
- The Political Theory of the Firm
- Business and Political Parties
- Economic Interests and Political Representation: Coordination and Distributive Conflict in Historical Perspective
- Business and Neo‐corporatism
- Business Representation in Washington, DC
- European Business–Government Relations
- Business Politics in Latin America: Patterns of Fragmentation and Centralization
- Japanese Business–Government Relations
- China and the Multinational Experience
- The Rise of the Regulatory State
- International Regulators and Network Governance
- Credit Rating Agencies
- International Standards and Standard‐Setting Bodies
- Taming Globalization?: Civil Regulation and Corporate Capitalism
- Corporate Control and Managerial Power
- Corporate Social Responsibility and Government
- The State, Business, and Training
- Social Policy and Business
- Public–Private Partnerships in Business and Government
- Entrepreneurship and Small Business Policy: Evaluating its Role and Purpose
- Consumer Policy: Business and the Politics of Consumption
- Media Economics and the Political Economy of Information
- Environmental and Food Safety Policy
- Network Utilities: Technological Development, Market Structure, and Forms of Ownership
- Endogenous Trade Protection: A Survey
- Competition Policy
- General Index
Abstract and Keywords
The relationship between the American regulatory state and the business enterprise is strikingly distinctive, viewed comparatively. The simplest, but perhaps the most important, indicator of distinction is that this is a relationship with deep historical roots. The pre-industrial American economy was one where the state was closely involved directly in the conduct of economic life, for instance in the chartering of corporations. But the relationship with business took a special turn in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. That special turn was a reaction to a great economic revolution which spanned the generation following the end of the Civil War.
Keywords: regulatory state, business enterprise, pre-industrial economy, American economy, economic life, corporations
Michael Moran is W. J. M. Mackenzie Professor of Government in the School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester.
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- The Oxford Handbook of Business and Government
- Preface
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Overview
- Political Science: Perspectives on Business and Government
- Economics: Economic Theories of the Firm, Business, and Government
- Law and Business
- Business Studies: The Global Dynamics of Business–State Relations
- Varieties of Capitalism and Business
- The Global Firm: The Problem of the Giant Firm in Democratic Capitalism
- The Political Theory of the Firm
- Business and Political Parties
- Economic Interests and Political Representation: Coordination and Distributive Conflict in Historical Perspective
- Business and Neo‐corporatism
- Business Representation in Washington, DC
- European Business–Government Relations
- Business Politics in Latin America: Patterns of Fragmentation and Centralization
- Japanese Business–Government Relations
- China and the Multinational Experience
- The Rise of the Regulatory State
- International Regulators and Network Governance
- Credit Rating Agencies
- International Standards and Standard‐Setting Bodies
- Taming Globalization?: Civil Regulation and Corporate Capitalism
- Corporate Control and Managerial Power
- Corporate Social Responsibility and Government
- The State, Business, and Training
- Social Policy and Business
- Public–Private Partnerships in Business and Government
- Entrepreneurship and Small Business Policy: Evaluating its Role and Purpose
- Consumer Policy: Business and the Politics of Consumption
- Media Economics and the Political Economy of Information
- Environmental and Food Safety Policy
- Network Utilities: Technological Development, Market Structure, and Forms of Ownership
- Endogenous Trade Protection: A Survey
- Competition Policy
- General Index
