American Business and Public Policy - 9780202241296

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American Business and Public PolicyThe politics of foreign trade\nAuthor(s): Theodore Draper\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc, United States\nImprint: AldineTransaction\nISBN-13: 9780202241296, 978-0202241296\nSynopsis\nAmerican Business and Public Policy is a study of the politics of foreign trade. It challenges fifty years of writ-ing on pressure politics. It includes nine hundred interviews with heads of corporations, including 166 of the 200 largest corporations; another 500 interviews with congressmen, lob-byists, journalists, and opinion leaders; and eight community studies making this book the most intensive survey in print of the politics of business. It is a realistic behavioral examination of a major type of economic decision.\n\nThe authors introduce their study with a history of the tariff as a political issue in American politics and a history of American tariff legislation in the years from Europe's trade recovery under the Marshall Plan to the ch.