Galbraith, Harrington, Heilbroner : : Economics and Dissent in an Age of Optimism / / Loren J. Okroi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Okroi, Loren J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 895
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (292 p.)

In a remarkably lucid and flowing style, Loren Okroi analyzes the ideas of three leading reformer-critics in the United States and places their main arguments in the context of the economic, social, and political history of postwar America. In so doing, he provides not only a skillful introduction t...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction. Ideas, Institutions, and Intellectuals
• THE BACKGROUND
• Chapter 1. The Great Transformation: American Economic Thought, 1865-1945
• THE THINKERS
• I. The Technological Imperative: John Kenneth Galbraith and the New Industrial State
• Chapter 2. The New Capitalism
• Chapter 3. The Industrial State
• Chapter 4. Galbraith and American Capitalism
• II. The Ironic Quest: Michael Harrington and the Socialist Dream
• Chapter 5. The New Poverty
• Chapter 6. The Great Society
• Chapter 7. Harrington and American Socialism
• III. Capitalism in Transition: Robert Heilbroner and the Crisis of Business Civilization
• Chapter 8. The New Pessimism
• Chapter 9. The New Right
• Chapter 10. Heilbroner and Corporate Society
• THE UNRESOLVED DILEMMAS
• Chapter 11. Economics, Power, Justice: American Liberalism and Democracy
• Select Bibliography
• Index
• Backmatter