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[Submitted to the list by Julia Ott <ottj@NEWSCHOOL.EDU>. --Ed.] The Market Cultures Group NYC invites you to attend Benjamin C. Waterhouse University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill "Taxes, Budgets, and Lobbyists—Oh My: How Reaganomics Weakened American Business Unity" Thursday 11/19 @ 6pm Room 613 55 West 13th Street This paper analyzes debates over tax policy during the Reagan Administration from the perspective of corporate leaders—the CEOs and business association executives who purported to speak for the whole of American business—and reveals an important irony. The unity that bound “organized business” together began to unravel once conservatives themselves took over the reins of state. The debate over tax reform highlights ideological, political, and personal schisms that began to define business political activism in the early 1980s. The paper thus presents the persistence of a “pro-business” political ethos, even as unified business political activity weakened, as a central puzzle in recent political history. The paper may be obtained by contacting the author: <waterhou@email.unc.edu> Julia Ott, the New School Dan Levinson Wilk, FIT Kim Phillips-Fein, NYU Richard Greenwald, Drew University Rachel Sherman, the New School For the 2009-2010 academic year, the Market Cultures Group NYC is pleased to accept support from the Tobin Project. --- Hyungsub Choi List Editor, H-Business
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