TY  - JOUR
AU  - Temin,Peter
TI  - The American Business Elite in Historical Perspective
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Historical Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 104
PY  - 1997
Y2  - October 1997
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/h0104
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/h0104.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Peter Temin
Department of Economics
MIT, Room E52-271A
50 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA  02142-1347
Tel: 617/253-3126
Fax: 617/253-1330
E-Mail: ptemin@mit.edu
AB  - This paper replicates a classic study of the American business elite.  The older study done a half-century ago, reported the composition of business leaders a century ago.  I have" drawn a sample of business leaders today to discover how much the composition of the" American business elite has changed.  As in the earlier study, the business elite is compared to a" sample of political leaders.  I find that democratization of the business elite has progressed only" slightly in the past century, nowhere near as much as democratization of the political elite. " Despite the myriad things that have changed in America in the last century the business elite appears recognizably the same.
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