Capitalism in Contention. Business leaders and political economy in modern Britain

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Examines the ideas of British business leaders on political, economic and social issues in the period from the Wilson to the Thatcher governments, dealing with business-government relations, the "mixed economy", the "New Right", etc. Finds that business ideas 'made distinctive contributions to both public policy and thinking about "capitalism"'. Identifies three ideological tendencies with business opinion: 'revisionism', 'liberationism' and 'reconstructionism'. The volume is structured: 'Business social ideas in the making'; 'An adapted, moderate capitalism - the anatomy of revisionism'; 'Co-operation or conflict? Business and the Labour Government, 1964-1970'; 'Liberationist capitalism in the wilderness, 1960-1975'; 'Peaks and precipices of revisionism, 1969-1974'; 'Systematic change in capitalism? The reconstructionists'; 'Turmoil, realignment and recovery. British business, 1974-1979'; 'Business and early Thatcherism'; 'New orthodoxy? Muffled dissent'; 'The significance of business ideology'