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Buy This Book in PrintWith 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 companies. Advertising is the means by which these companies manage demand and create consumer "need" where none previously existed. Multinational corporations are the continuation of this power system on an international level. The goal of these companies is not the betterment of society, but immortality through an uninterrupted stream of earnings.
First published in 1967, The New Industrial State continues to resonate today.
Table of Contents
Cover
Title, Copyright, Dedication
Contents
General Editorâs Introduction
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction to the Fourth Edition
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
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
| ISBN | 9781400873180 |
|---|---|
| Related ISBN(s) | 9780691131412 |
| MARC Record | Download |
| OCLC | 905969956 |
| Pages | 576 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2020-01-01 |
| Language | English |
| Open Access | No |
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