Kindred Strangers

by David Vogel

Notwithstanding the myriad forms of government assistance to American business the relationship of business to politics in the United States remains a highly antagonistic one characterized by substantial mutual distrust This adversarial relationship is both reflected and reinforced not only in American business ideology but also in America's unique legalistic and confrontational style of regulation the political strategies of the public interest movement the American approach to American industrialpolicy and the distinctive way Americans think about the subject of business ethics This volume brings together more than two decades of scholarship on business and politics by one of the leading authorities on this subject These essays also explorea number of critical contemporary issues including the ongoing debate over the scope and extent of business power in America the growth of shareholder protests and consumer boycotts the changing politics of consumer and environmental

Unbound

Published January 1, 1956

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David Vogel (born 1947) is the Soloman P. Lee Distinguished Professor in Business Ethics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of both the Political Science Department and the Haas School of Business, and is Editor of the California Management Review. He was the Jean Monnet Chair, European University Institute, in 1994 and the BP Chair in Transatlantic Relations, there in 2000. At INSEAD he was the Novartis Professor of Management and the Environment in 2000-2001 and the Shell Fellowship in Business and the Environment in 2002.

Vogel has a BA in political science from Queens College City University of New York and a PhD in politics from Princeton University.