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A NEW HISTORY
OF LEVIATHAN
A NEW HISTORY
OF
LEVIATHAN
Essays
on the Rise
of the
American Corporate
State
EDITED BY
RONALD RADOSH AND MURRAY N. ROTHBARD
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E. P. DUTTON & CO., INC. | NEW YORK | 1972
Copyright © 1972 by Murray N. Rothbard and Ronald Radosh
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Preface
RONALD RADOSH and
MURRAY N. ROTHBARD
It is now widely understood that the United States in mid-
twentieth century is a Leviathan Corporate State—a politi-
cal economy dominated by giant multinational corpora-
tions whose extensive domain, operating with the levers of
government, extends from the local retail outlet to firms
negotiating for rights to explore oil deposits offshore of
Saigon. But the corporate state, whose pervasive influence
has recently been subjected to sharp critiques by Herbert
Marcuse, Charles Reich, and Phillip Slater (in
The Pursuit
of Loneliness
[Boston: Beacon Press, 1970]), is by no
means a new phenomenon. The corporate leviathan began
to emerge at the turn of the twentieth century, after an era
of substantial laissez-faire had proceeded to industrialize
and urbanize the nation.
The essays in this book reveal how and in what manner
the corporate state developed in twentieth-century
America. They show how a sophisticated group of large
corporate reformers managed to replace a freely competi-
tive economy and make a new governing class, through the
use of reform mechanisms to mold the government into a
mighty instrument of monopolization and cartelization.
From Theodore Roosevelt to Woodrow Wilson to Franklin
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