The New Industrial State /

The New Industrial State / / John Kenneth Galbraith.

With searing wit and incisive commentary, John Kenneth Galbraith redefined America's perception of itself in The New Industrial State, one of his landmark works. The United States is no longer a free-enterprise society, Galbraith argues, but a structured state controlled by the largest companie...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Galbraith, John Kenneth,
TeilnehmendeR:
Galbraith, James K.
Wilentz, Sean.
MitwirkendeR:
Galbraith, James K.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©2007
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:The James Madison Library in American Politics
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Physical Description:1 online resource (576 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • General Editor's Introduction
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction to the Fourth Edition: On the Perils and Rewards of Economic Dissonance
  • 1. Change and the Planning System
  • 2. The Imperatives of Technology
  • 3. The Nature of Industrial Planning
  • 4. Planning and the Supply of Capital
  • 5. Capital and Power
  • 6. The Technostructure
  • 7. The Corporation
  • 8. The Entrepreneur and the Technostructure
  • 9. A Digression on the Firm under Socialism
  • 10. The Approved Contradiction
  • 11. The General Theory of Motivation
  • 12. Motivation in Perspective
  • 13. Motivation and the Technostructure
  • 14. The Principle of Consistency
  • 15. The Goals of the Planning System
  • 16. Prices in the Planning System
  • 17. Prices in the Planning System (Continued)
  • 18. The Management of Specific Demand
  • 19. The Revised Sequence
  • 20. The Regulation of Aggregate Demand
  • 21. The Nature of Employment and Unemployment
  • 22. The Control of the Wage-Price Spiral
  • 23. The Planning System and the Union I
  • 24. The Planning System and the Union II The Ministerial Union
  • 25. The Educational and Scientific Estate
  • 26. The Planning System and the State I
  • 27. The Planning System and the State II
  • 28. A Further Summary
  • 29. The Planning System and the Arms Race
  • 30. The Further Dimensions
  • 31. The Planning Lacunae
  • 32. Of Toil
  • 33. Education and Emancipation
  • 34. The Political Lead
  • 35. The Future of the Planning System
  • An Addendum on Economic Method and the Nature of Social Argument
  • Index

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