The New Industrial State / John Kenneth Galbraith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Galbraith, John Kenneth, Author.

Contributor:

Galbraith, James K.

Wilentz, Sean.

Series:

James Madison library in American politics.

The James Madison Library in American Politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industries.

Industrial policy.

Industrial policy--United States.

Industries--United States.

United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (577 pages).

Edition:

First Princeton edition.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

General Editor's Introduction

Foreword / Galbraith, James K.

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

Notes:

Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1967.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

9781400873180

1400873185

OCLC:

780851884