Mintz and Schwartz offer a fascinating tour of the corporate world. Through an intensive study of interlocking corporate directorates, they show that for the first time in American history the loan making and stock purchasing and selling powers are concentrated in the same hands: the leadership of major financial firms. Their detailed descriptions of corporate case histories include the forced ouster of Howard Hughes from TWA in the late fifties as a result of lenders' pressure; the collapse of Chrysler in the late seventies owing to banks' refusal to provide further capital infusions; and the very different "rescues" of Pan American Airlines and Braniff Airlines by bank intervention in the seventies.
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Beth A. Mintz is associate professor of sociology at the University of Vermont. Michael Schwartz is professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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bank control theory, most central corporations, bank control theorists, intercorporate affairs, directional interlocks, interlock research, most central firms, bridge centrality, hub centrality, financial interlocks, intercorporate power, centrality derived, interlock network, officer interlocks, centrality rank, bank hegemony, primary interlocks, stock dumping, interlock patterns, interlocked firms, multiple interlocks, stock market encyclopedia, lending consortia, intercorporate coordination, bank centrality Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Business Week, United States, Chase Manhattan, First National Bank of Chicago, Metropolitan Life, First National City Bank, Equitable Life, General Motors, Bankers Trust, Chemical Bank, Continental Illinois, Pacific Mutual, Manufacturers Hanover, Morgan Guaranty, Western Bancorp, Penn Central, Phelps Dodge, General Electric, International Harvester, Lehman Brothers, United California Bank, Big Three, Southern Pacific, Cyprus Mines New!
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