American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century

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Cover......Page 1 Title Page......Page 4 Copyight Page......Page 5 Table of Contents ......Page 6 Introduction: Social Theory and Capitalist Reality in the American Century ......Page 8 Part I: Theorizing Twentieth-Century American Capitalism ......Page 26 Chapter 1. The Postcapitalist Vision in Twentieth-Century American Social Thought ......Page 28 Chapter 2. To Moscow and Baclz: American Socinl Scientists and the Concept of Convergence ......Page 54 Part II: Liberalism and Its Social Agenda ......Page 76 Chapter 3. Clark Kerr: From the Industrial to the Knowledg Eeconomy ......Page 78 Chapter 4. John Kenneth Galbraith: Liberalism and the Politics of Cultural Critique ......Page 95 Chapter 5. The Prophet of Post-Fordism: Peter Druclzer and the Legitimation of the Corporation ......Page 116 Part III: A Critique from the Left ......Page 140 Chapter 6. C. Wright Mills and American Social Science ......Page 142 Chapter 7. C. L. R. Jnmes and the Theor! of Stnte Capitalism ......Page 164 Chapter 8. Oliver C. Cox and the Roots of World Systems Theory ......Page 182 Chapter 9. Feminism, Women's History, and American Social Thoughtnt at Midcentury ......Page 198 Part IV: The Rise of the Right ......Page 218 Chapter 10. The Rond Less Traveled: Reconsidering the Political Writings of Friedrich von Hayek ......Page 220 Chapter 11. The Politics of Rich and Rich: Postwar Investigntions of Foundntions and the Rise of the Philnnthropic Right ......Page 235 Chapter 12. American Counterrevolutionary: Lerrluel Rickettr Boulware and Genera1 Electric, 1930–1960 ......Page 256 Chapter 13. Godless Capitalism: Ayn Rand and the Conservative Movement ......Page 278 Notes......Page 298 Contributors......Page 368 Index......Page 372 Acknowledgments......Page 386