War Collectivism

War Collectivism: Power, Business, and the Intellectual Class in World War I

More than any other single period, World War I was the critical watershed for the American business system. It was a "war collectivism," a totally planned economy run largely by big-business interest through the instrumentality of the central government, which served as the model, the precedent, and the inspiration for state corporate capitalism for the remainder of the century.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
War Collectivism in World War I
World War I as Fulfillment:
Power and the Intellectuals
Introduction
Piestism and Prohibition
Women at War and at the Polls
Savings Our Boys from Alcohol and Vice
The New Republic Collectivists
Economics in Service of the State: The Empiricism of Richard T. Ely
Economics in Service of the State: Government and Statistics