PSC 343 - Business and Government

three credits
The changing relationship between businesses and government at the state, local and federal levels during the 20th century. Particular attention will be paid to the politics of regulation, price controls, the development of new forms of “social regulation” in the 1960s, and the current trend towards deregulation and privatization. Regulatory programs will be placed in the context of the larger relationship between state and society in the United States.