Why has labor played a more limited role in national politics in the United States than it has in other advanced industrial societies? Victoria Hattam demonstrates that voluntarism, as American labor's policy was known, was the American Federation of Labor's strategic response to the structure...

Main description: Irvine Anderson carefully reconstructs the years between 1933 and 1950 and provides a case study of the evolution of U.S. foreign oil policy and of the complex relationships between the U.S. government and the business world.Originally published in 1987.The Princeton Legacy...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- I. The Tax Expenditure Budget -- II. Some Uses of the Tax Expenditure Budget -- III. The Effects of Tax Expenditures on the Taxes People and Corporations Pay -- IV. Operational Aspects of Tax Expenditures: Tax Deferral and Tax Shelters --...

Main description: This book proposes a new framework for explaining and anticipating foreign economic policy changes, at the same time providing a fascinating account of three American policy shifts that transformed the postwar international monetary system.Originally published in 1982.The...