This paper replicates a classic study of the American business elite. The older study done a half-century ago, reported … the composition of the" American business elite has changed. As in the earlier study, the business elite is compared to a …" sample of political leaders. I find that democratization of the business elite has progressed only" slightly in the past …

Wilhelm Keutgen, Bremen's Consul in New York, 1859-61 -- 8 The Role of the Business Elite in the Social, Economic and Cultural …