Talk:People's capitalism

People's Capitalism

This should be considered as a collective concept referring to many works by authors like Lous Kelso and James Albus, just to mention two. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Janosabel (talk • contribs) 13:01, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Books entitled "People's Capitalism"

The Library of Congress catalog shows four such titles: Louis Menchini, The People's Capitalism (San Francisco, 1945); People's Capitalism -- New Social Order or New Depression? (Toronto, 1957); Jacob M. Budish, People's Capitalism: Stock Ownership and Production (New York, 1958); James Albus, People's Capitalism: The Economics of the Robot Revolution (College Park, 1976). The catalog also shows The American round table discussions on people's capitalism (New York, 1957), based on an event held at Yale University in 1956. (Proceedings of similar round tables were published through 1959).

WorldCat shows additional titles. One (published by the Advertising Council and cited by Greg Castillo in ch. 6 of his Cold War on the Home Front) is: Alberto Galindo, People's Capitalism: The Process of Its Realization (New York, [ca. 1957?]. Another (issued by the Hanover Bank) is: Marcus Nadler, People's Capitalism (New York, 1956). Listed also is: People's Capitalism? (Moscow, 1957).

The Library of Brigham Young University holds the offprint of an excerpt entitled "The Case for a People's Capitalism: A Condensation," from Eric A. Johnston, America Unlimited (New York, 1944).

Worth comparing is John Redwood's Popular Capitalism (London, 1988). His (specifically British?) usage seems to be close to that reflected in https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalisme_populaire (which indeed uses the Financial Times as a source). On https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher we find the statements from a speech of 15 March 1986 in which Thatcher explicitly linked "popular capitalism' to 'conservatism' and defined the former as follows: "Popular capitalism, which is the economic expression of liberty, is proving a much more attractive means for diffusing power in our society."

"Peoples Capitalism," the 1956 exhibition

Per James Schwoch, Global TV: New Media and the Cold War (2009), p. 97: "More ambitious was the Peoples Capitalism exhibition that same year. Tested at Union Station in Washington, D.C., and then packaged for a world tour, Peoples Capitalism was a coventure with the Advertising Council of America." The exhibit had already been discussed by Kenneth Osgood in his book, Total Cold War (2006) -- which appeared some fifteen years after the exhibit figured in James Guimond's American Photography and the American Dream (1991). These citations, though, are just the some of the earlier contributions to a growing body of documentation on the historical significance of the exhibit. See also Wendy Wall's, Inventing the "American Way" (2009) and Laura Belmonte's Selling the American Way (2013). Nils Gilman, in Mandarins of the Future (2003) sees the "boosterish" People's Capitalism exhibit as having had a negative though for that reason still important impact on the formulation of the US exhibit at the 1958 world's fair in Brussels, while other scholars have viewed the Soviet exhibit at the same fair as having been conceived as a response to it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.17.179.75 (talk) 15:17, 9 February 2019 (UTC)