About the authors Foreword Preface Introduction: the corporation in the public square Part I. The Seeds of Corporate Responsibility: 1. Foundations of capitalism and the birth of the corporation (1776-1880) 2. The turbulent rise of the corporation (1880-1900) 3. The Progressive Era and a new business-government relationship (1900-18) 4. The corporation's case for social responsibility (1918-29) 5. The corporation and national crisis (1929-45) Part II. Corporate Responsibility Comes of Age: 6. Corporate legitimacy affirmed (1945-63) 7. A revolution of rising expectations (1963-73) 8. Managing corporate responsibility (1973-81) Part III. Taking Account of Corporate Responsibility: 9. Stakeholders and stockholders (1981-9) 10. Corporate responsibility institutionalizes and globalizes (1989-2001) 11. A new social contract for the twenty-first century (2001-11) Conclusion: patterns and prospects Endnotes References List of plates Index.

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Corporate Responsibility: The American Experience

List of figures List of tables Acknowledgements Glossary and abbreviations Introduction 1. Official statistics and the crisis of the Wilhelmine state 2. The Republic's new numbers, 1918-23 3. Weimar's macroeconomic statistics, 1924-29 4. The crisis of Weimar's statistical establishment, 1930-3 5. Statistics and the 'Strong State', 1933-6 6. The radicalization of the Nazi regime and the death of official statistics, 1936-9 7. World War II and the return of macroeconomics Conclusion Appendix: Wagemann's national economic account - explanatory notes Bibliography Index.

Statistics and the German State, 1900-1945: The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge

Twenty years after Louis Galambos published “The Emerging Organizational Synthesis,” the organizational strand of revisionist history has become a mainstay of scholarly interpretation. One hallmark of its maturity is that today the organizational synthesis is itself a subject undergoing revision by charter members and critics alike. High priests like Galambos have underscored the wealth of scholarship spawned by the organizational approach and have discerned broad new trends and tensions in that scholarship. Galambos recently blessed three denominations that have embellished and elaborated upon the founders' abiding faith in the forces of modernization to reshape state-society relations: technology, as mediated through large-scale corporate development; the administrative state, as it has developed over the twentieth century to embrace a new, corporatist form of liberalism; and the pervasive professionalization of society. Yet many leading historians remain outside of the organizational flock. Alan Brinkley, one of the agnostics, has criticized organizational historians for pushing “vast segments of society to the periphery of historical analysis.” Michael McGerr, an outright heretic, has questioned the whole endeavor, doubting whether there “really was an ‘organizational society’ in the early twentieth century (or even now)” and charging the historians who in-vented that society with the sin of “presentism.”

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Reorganizing the Organizational Synthesis: Federal-Professional Relations in Modern America

Problem: When the First National Conference on City Planning took place in Washington, DC, 100 ago, the delegates failed to foresee the consequences of automobility and suburbanization, but in other ways they were remarkably prescient. They stressed the importance of the linkage between transportation and land use, understood that transportation facilities must be harmoniously embedded in the urban fabric, and viewed transportation investment as a way to direct growth, revitalize flagging areas, and link jobs and housing. Since transportation planners in subsequent decades kept this vision alive, envisioning a network of context-sensitive urban freeways fully integrated into the urban milieu, why is this not what was built? Purpose: We consider the history of U.S. urban transportation planning over the past 100 years, to explain the evolution and legacy of the single most important transportation development of the past century save automobility itself: the emergence of the urban freeway. Methods: We revi...

Planning for Cars in Cities: Planners, Engineers, and Freeways in the 20th Century

In Trade and the American Dream, Susan Aaronson highlights a previously ignored dimension of United States trade policy: public understanding. Focusing on the debate over the three mechanisms designed to govern world trade - the International Trade Organization (ITO), the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), and the World Trade Organization (WTO) - she examines how policymakers communicate and how the public comprehends trade policy. As "the American century" draws to a close, the message is clear: the American public's aspirations - indeed, the traditional pursuit of the American Dream - should be reflected in international trade policy. Aaronson suggests ways to create greater public understanding for the GATT/WTO and international trade as America enters the twenty-first century. If national trade policy is to play in Peoria, Americans must first understand it.

Trade and the American Dream: A Social History of Postwar Trade Policy

Guy Alchon examines the mutually supportive efforts of social scientists, business managers, and government officials to create America's first peacetime system of macroeconomic management.Originally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Papers

The Invisible Hand of Planning: Capitalism, Social Science, and the State in the 1920s