Corporate liberalism
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Corporate liberalism is a thesis in US historiography
. Its principal text is James Weinstein
's The Corporate Ideal in the Liberal State. Other historians who advocate similar theories of US history include Gabriel Kolko
, Martin Sklar, and Murray N. Rothbard.
The thesis of corporate liberalism has similarities with the ideas of the organizational synthesis school of Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
, Samuel P. Hays, Robert Wiebe
, and Louis Galambos.
Nor should Weinstein's idea of corporate liberalism be confused with Ellis W. Hawley's use of the term. Daniel T. Rodgers
noted that Hawley's use of "corporate liberalism" was more a description of liberal corporatism than anything else.
Historiography
Historiography refers either to the study of the history and methodology of history as a discipline, or to a body of historical work on a specialized topic...
. Its principal text is James Weinstein
James Weinstein
James "Jimmy" Weinstein was an American historian and journalist best known as the founder and publisher of In These Times...
's The Corporate Ideal in the Liberal State. Other historians who advocate similar theories of US history include Gabriel Kolko
Gabriel Kolko
Gabriel Kolko is an American historian and author.Kolko was born in Paterson, New Jersey, attended Kent State University and the University of Wisconsin , married Joyce Manning in 1955, and received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1962. Following graduation he taught at the University of Pennsylvania...
, Martin Sklar, and Murray N. Rothbard.
The thesis of corporate liberalism has similarities with the ideas of the organizational synthesis school of Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
Alfred DuPont Chandler, Jr. was a professor of business history at Harvard Business School and Johns Hopkins University, who wrote extensively about the scale and the management structures of modern corporations. His works redefined business and economic history of industrialization...
, Samuel P. Hays, Robert Wiebe
Robert Wiebe
Robert Henry Wiebe was a municipal and provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1967 to 1971 sitting with the governing Social Credit caucus.-Political career:...
, and Louis Galambos.
Nor should Weinstein's idea of corporate liberalism be confused with Ellis W. Hawley's use of the term. Daniel T. Rodgers
Daniel T. Rodgers
-Life:He graduated from Brown University in Engineering, and from Yale University with a Ph.D.He is Henry Charles Lea Professor at Princeton University.His work appeared in Harper's....
noted that Hawley's use of "corporate liberalism" was more a description of liberal corporatism than anything else.