Big government and affirmative action: the scandalous history of the Small Business Administration

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David Stockman, Ronald Reagan's budget director, proclaimed the Small Business Administration a ""billion-dollar waste -- a rathole, "" and set out to abolish the agency. His scathing critique was but the latest attack on an agency better known as the ""Small Scandal Administration."" Loans to criminals, government contracts for minority ""fronts, "" the classification of American Motors as a small business, Whitewater, and other scandals -- the Small Business Administration has lurched from on…

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Full title :Big government and affirmative action : the scandalous history of the Small Business Administration / Jonathan J. Bean.

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Publication Date:©2001

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):The University Press of Kentucky
Place of Publication:Lexington, Kentucky
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2001

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (240 pages)

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ISBN:9780813158648, 0813158648, 0813170974, 9780813170978
oclc:ocn903959727
LC Classification:HD2346.U5
Dewey Decimal:354.2/799/0973

Politics and patronage -- Small business on the New Frontier -- The entrepreneurial era -- Crisis and consolidation -- The agony of Hilary Sandoval -- The small scandal administration -- Small business in an age of big government -- Eternal life.

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Affirmative action programs Affirmative action programs -- History.… History Programmes d'action positive -- Histoir… Small business -- Government policy Small business -- Government policy -- … United States United States., Small Business Administ…