The Dynamics of Business-Government Relations

by Becker, William H.

• ISBN13: 9780226041216
• ISBN10: 0226041212
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1981-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

This work represents an important advance in the study of the interrelationships between business and U.S. foreign policy. Focusing on a single aspect of this broad field--the growth of industrial exports--William H. Becker demonstrates the complexity of business interests and behavior, of the bureaucratic and political forces at work in Congress and the Departments of Commerce and State, and of the interplay between business and governmental practices and concerns. In so doing, he provides the first full analysis of the industrial, political, and bureaucratic context in which the U.S. became a major exporter of industrial products.

Author Biography

William H. Becker is associate professor of history at University of Maryland Baltimore County.

Table of Contents

Preface

American Manufacturers and the World Market: An Overview

Depression and Foreign Trade in the 1890s

Private Economic Power and the World Market, 1901-14

Congress and Trade Expansion: The Tariff, 1897-1917

Congress, Business, and Bureaucracy: The Department of State and Consular Reorganization

Coordinating Foreign Trade Expansion: The Department of Commerce, 1913-17

World War and Foreign Trade

The Failure of Industry-Government Coordination: The Postwar Years

The Limits of Industry-Government Relations and Export Trade Expansion, 1893-1921

Appendixes

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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