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The invisible hand of planning : capitalism, social science, and the state in the 1920s / Guy Alchon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alchon, Guy, 1951- author.
- Series:
- Princeton Legacy Library
- Princeton legacy library
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Planning--United States--History--20th century.
- Planning.
- Social sciences--United States--History--20th century.
- Social sciences.
- Business planning--United States--History--20th century.
- Business planning.
- United States--Economic policy--To 1933.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 p.)
- Edition:
- Course Book
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1985]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Guy Alchon examines the mutually supportive efforts of social scientists, business managers, and government officials to create America's first peacetime system of macroeconomic management.Originally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1. Technocratic Progressivism
- CHAPTER 2. Technocratic Mobilization, 1917-1918
- CHAPTER 3. Ideas of Technocratic Reconstruction, 1919
- CHAPTER 4. Institutions of Technocratic Reconstruction, 1920-1921
- CHAPTER 5. Impulses Toward Techno-Corporatist Stabilization, 1921-1922
- CHAPTER 6. The Business Cycle Report and Its Aftermath, 1922-1923
- CHAPTER 7. The Advance of Techno-Corporatist Legitimation, 1924-1927
- CHAPTER 8. Toward a Technique of Balance, 1927-1929
- CHAPTER 9. After the Crash, 1929-1932
- EPILOGUE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- Backmatter
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 220-243.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4008-5496-2
- OCLC:
- 979578165
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