“The broadening of the economic order which came to be seated in the individual property owner... dramatized by Jefferson's purchase of the Louisiana Territory... "The supremacy of corporate economic power... consolidated by the Supreme Court decision of 1886 which declared that the Fourteenth Amendment protected the corporation... [the New Deal, leading to], within the political arena, as well as in the corporate world itself, competing centers of power that challenged those of the corporate directors.” WorldWellsPoliticalOrderIndividualDecisionDealsEconomicDirectorsCourtPropertySupremeCorporateCorporationsOwnersTerritoryAmendmentsProtectedSupreme CourtCompetingArenaSupremacyLouisianaEconomic PowerNew DealCorporate WorldEconomic OrderCourt DecisionFourteenth Amendment Author:C. Wright Mills
“By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.” PoliticalDecisionPowerShareEconomicMilitaryEventsConsequenceDecidedCirclesElitesIntricateCliqueOverlapping Book:The Power Elite Source: The Power Elite
“What I am asserting is that in this particular epoch a conjunction of historical circumstances has led to the rise of an elite of power; that the men of the circles composing this elite, severally and collectively, now make such key decisions as are made; and that, given the enlargement and the centralization of the means of power now available, the decisions that they make and fail to make carry more consequences for more people than has ever been the case in the world history of mankind” PeopleMenWorldMeanMadeGivenDecisionCasesFailingMankindParticularHe ManKeysCircumstancesConsequenceHistoricalAvailableCirclesElitesWorld HistoryComposingEpochConjunctionsCentralizationEnlargement Book:The Power Elite Source: The Power Elite
“Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.” MenDecisionResultsFateEventsSummaryEvents In History Book:The Sociological Imagination Source: The Sociological Imagination
