In mid-twentieth-century Latin America there was a strong consensus between Left and Right—Communists working under the directives of the Third International, nationalists within the military interested in fostering industrialization, and populists—about the need to break away from the colonial legacies of the past and to escape from the constraints of the international capitalist system. Even though they disagreed about the desired end state, Argentines of all political stripes could agree on the need for economic independence and national sovereignty, which would be brought about through the efforts of a national bourgeoisie. James Brennan and Marcelo Rougier aim to provide a political history of this national bourgeoisie in this book. Deploying an eclectic methodology combining aspects of the “new institutionalism,” the “new economic history,” Marxist political economy, and deep research in numerous, rarely consulted archives into what they dub the “new business history,” the authors offer the first thorough, empirically based history of the national bourgeoisie’s peak association, the Confederación General Económica (CGE), and of the Argentine bourgeoisie’s relationship with the state. They also investigate the relationship of the bourgeoisie to Perón and the Peronist movement by studying the history of one industrial sector, the metalworking industry, and two regional economies—one primarily industrial, Córdoba, and another mostly agrarian, Chaco—with some attention to a third, Tucumán, a cane-cultivating and sugar-refining region sharing some features of both. While spanning three decades, the book concentrates most on the years of Peronist government, 1946–55 and 1973–76.

In any nation, there are only two types of capitalism: capitalism that's good for the nation, and capitalism that isn't. National capitalism means that everyone in the nation profits from capitalism. No one is left behind. Global capitalism - the prevailing form of capitalism in today's world - destroys nations and their people. Global capitalism is totally contemptuous of the nation state, and is solely about maximizing the profits of the stateless, global elite, who will go anywhere, and screw over anyone, to get the highest returns. National capitalism, by contrast, isn't about Wall Street. It serves Main Street. It guarantees that everyone in Main Street gets richer. National capitalism involves continuous investment in the people. The people are always the focus of national capitalism. It's time for a national rebirth, for the triumph of Main Street, and the abolition of Wall Street. Why would anyone allow the wolves to feed on them?

Reviews the D.C. mass transportation plans. Includes Interim Report of the Joint Commission To Study Passenger Carrier Facilities and Services in the Washington Metropolitan Area, Feb. 1956 (p. 309-362)

Through a careful analysis of the former Soviet Union and China, and South Asian societies of India and the Phillipines, this volume examines the creation of a state capitalism, its roll in economic development, and its impact on social change.