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Corporate Liberalism Reconsidered: A Review Essay

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2011

Gerald Berk
Gerald Berk
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University of Notre Dame
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Journal of Policy History , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , January 1991 , pp. 70 - 84
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Copyright © The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. 1991

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1. On the relationship between pluralist theory and industrialization, see Rogin, Michael, The Intellectuals and McCarthy: The Radical Specter (Cambridge, Mass., 1978), 9–58.Google Scholar On the first round of left corporate liberal scholarship, see Sklar, Martin J., “Woodrow Wilson and the Political Economy of Modern United States Liberalism,” Studies on the Left 1 (1960):17–47Google Scholar; Weinstein, James, The Corporate Ideal in the Liberal State: 1900–1918 (Boston, 1968)Google Scholar; and Parinni, Carl P., Heir to Empire: U.S. Economic Diplomacy, 1916–1923 (Pittsburgh, 1969).Google Scholar For a review of corporate liberal scholarship across the ideological spectrum, see Hawley, Ellis, “The Discovery of ‘Corporate Liberalism’”, Business History Review 52 (Autumn 1978):309–20.Google Scholar

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6. Sklar, Corporate Reconstruction, 87 (emphasis mine).

7. Livingston, Origins of the Federal Reserve, 93.

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