War Collectivism

War Collectivism: Power, Business, and the Intellectual Class in World War I

More than any other single period, World War I was the critical watershed for the American business system. It was a "war collectivism," a totally planned economy run largely by big-business interest through the instrumentality of the central government, which served as the model, the precedent, and the inspiration for state corporate capitalism for the remainder of the century.

Paperback, 134 pages, ISBN: 9781610162500

TABLE OF CONTENTS

War Collectivism in World War I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

World War I as Fulfillment:

Power and the Intellectuals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53

Piestism and Prohibition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57

Women at War and at the Polls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66

Savings Our Boys from Alcohol and Vice . . . . . . . . . .74

The New Republic Collectivists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83

Economics in Service of the State:

The Empiricism of Richard T. Ely. . . . . . . . . . . . . .94

Economics in Service of the State:

Government and Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127