B. From Competition to Regulated Big Business
C. Commission-Style Regulation
D. "New Regulation" in the 1960s and 70's
1. From regulating industries to regulating activities
2. Consumers, Environment, Labor
May 31, 2006 link to syllabus Link to handout on paper topics! Final exam now online
History 363: American Business History
I. Race, Gender and Business
bibliography on
cultural diversity in American business
Center for Black
Business History
A. Segregation, Exclusion and Opportunity
B. Gender and the "Glass Ceiling"
essay
on sources on history of women in American business
online exhibit on women in
American business
II. Who does control the Giant Corporation? Government Regulation?
A. Limits and Paradoxes of
Anti-Trust
B. From Competition to Regulated Big Business
C. Commission-Style Regulation
D. "New Regulation" in
the 1960s and 70's
1. From regulating industries to regulating activities
2. Consumers,
Environment, Labor
III. Theories of Government Regulation
A. Public Interest
B. Capture
C. Bureaucratic Politics
IV. Deregulation (and Re-Regulation?)
Milton Friedman is a leading advocate
of deregulation
Instead of a tycoon this week, if time permits I'll show a section of a documentary on the rise and fall of a dot.com company, Startup.com (2001). In the late 1990s, many commentators were claiming that computers and the internet had helped bring about a "new economy." The rise of the dot.coms seemed unstoppable. In the spring of 2000, however, the bubble burst.