The vital majority : small business in the American economy : essays marking the twentieth anniversary of the U.S. Small Business Administration / edited by Deane Carson.

Includes bibliographical references.

Message from the president / Richard M. Nixon -- Introduction / Thomas S. Kleppe -- Preface / Deane Carson -- Federal support of the vital majority : the development of the U.S. Small Business Administration / Anthony G. Chase -- The small business ethic in America / Ross M. Robertson -- Small business and the money and capital markets / Roland I. Robinson -- Small business investment companies / Kermit L. Culver -- Commercial bank lending to small business / Neil Murphy -- Small business administration loan programs / David A. Wollard -- Trade credit as a source of funds / Robert W. Johnson --Life insurance company lending to small business / Charles Wolf -- Financial services available to small business from finance companies / Daniel Brill and Larry Shotwell -- Venture capital / Mark Rollinson -- Differential effects of monetary policy on small business / Deane Carson and Ira O. Scott --

Factors affecting the profitability of small firms / Louis L. Allen -- The small business administration's management assistance program / Edward N. Rosa -- Organizational and financial planning for new business ventures / Harold Blicksilver -- Information systems and computerization / Frederic G. Withington -- The role of research and development in small firms / Thomas Hogan and John Chirichiello -- Product introductions by small firms / Alfred R. Oxenfeldt and David L. Rados -- Selling to the government : the small business administration government procurement program / Clyde Bothmer -- Small business overseas marketing / Lincoln Armstrong -- Labor-management problems and relations in small business / Philip Taft -- Fostering minority business ownership / Wilfred J. Garvin -- Antitrust policy in times of change / Donald I. Baker -- Effects of business taxation : the special case of smaller enterprise / Peter Mieszkowski -- Concentration, profits, prices and public policy / Bernard Shull.