This book focuses on political connections in the United States. It contributes to the literature on the link between politics and business, and on the impact of political connections on firm value, by considering industry-level regulation as a discriminating factor in the investigation of firm...

Many societies use labor market coordination to maximize economic growth and equality, yet employers' willing cooperation with government and labor is something of a mystery. The Political Construction of Corporate Interests recounts employers' struggles to define their collective social...

Adversarial relations? : business and politics in twentieth-century America / Richard R.. John -- Trade associations, state building, and the Sherman Act : the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1912-25 / Laura Phillips Sawyer -- Toward a civic welfare state : business and city building in the 1920s /...

Epiphany -- Dollar$ to Doughnuts : financing social change -- Foundations of progressivism -- Archimedes' lever...and Thor's hammer -- Them! -- Capital punishment -- Left, with the right's stuff -- Us! -- From networks to netwar -- Biz-war and the out-of-power elite