Big government and affirmative action : the scandalous history of the Small Business Administration / Jonathan J. Bean.

David Stockman, Ronald Reagan's budget director, proclaimed the Small Business Administration a ""billion-dollar waste -- a rathole, "" and set out to abolish the agency. His scathing critique was but the latest attack on an agency better known as the ""Small Scand...

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Main Author: Bean, Jonathan J.
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Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015.
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505 0 |a Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Politics and Patronage; Birth of the SBA; Interest-group Representation; The Administration of William D. Mitchell; Wendell Barnes Takes Over; Election-Year Politics; The Fourth Banking System; Conclusion; 2. Small Business on the New Frontier; John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Small Business; The Smalls Versus the ""Not-So-Smalls""; Procurement Preferences; Kennedy, Big Business, and the SBA; Toward ""The Other America""; 3. The Entrepreneurial Era; Foley's Innovations. 
505 8 |a The Evolution of Affirmative ActionBlack Enterprise and the War on Poverty; Conclusion; 4. Crisis and Consolidation; Time of Troubles; SBICs and the Redefinition of ""Small""; Sizing up Small Business; The Urban Crisis and Affirmative Action; Conclusion; 5. The Agony of Hilary Sandoval; Nixonomics and the Politics of Small Business; Hilary Sandoval, 1969-1970; Affirmative Action Controversy; 6. The Small Scandal Administration; Restructuring a Disorganized Agency, 1971-1972; The 1972 Election; The Scandals of 1973; The Firestorm over Minority Enterprise; The SBA and ""New"" Regulation. 
505 8 |a Conclusion7. Small Business in an Age of Big Government; The Ford Years, 1974 -1976; The Carter Years; Affirmative Action Comes of Age; The Rise of the Small Business Lobby; Looking Backward: 1970-1980; 8. Eternal Life; The Reagan Revolution, 1981-1984; Reagan Champions Quotas; The Wedtech Scandal; The Battle to Abolish the SBA, 1985-1987; What ""Revolution""?; The Bush-Clinton Years; Conclusion; Interest-Group Representation; Affirmative Action; Government Growth; Reinventing Government; Appendix A: Chronology; Appendix B: Graphing Growth; Notes; Bibliography; Index. 
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