Download or read book J K Galbraith The new industrial state methodology developments and reappraisals written by John Kenneth Galbraith and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred years after his birth, J. K. Galbraith' s The Great Crash 1929 is again on the bestseller lists. And in the current financial and economic tumult, familiar Galbraithian concerns' such as the power and dominance of overweening corporations, national and global poverty, and the careless destruction of the natural environment' once again loom large in the public consciousness.Galbraith' s contemporaries included such towering intellects as Paul Samuelson, Robert Solow, Milton Friedman, Wassily Leontief, Simon Kuznets, James Meade, Nicolas...

Download or read book The New Industrial State written by John Kenneth Galbraith and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-29 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book J K Galbraith The new industrial state the bimodal view and reaction to movement conservatism written by John Kenneth Galbraith and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred years after his birth, J. K. Galbraith' s The Great Crash 1929 is again on the bestseller lists. And in the current financial and economic tumult, familiar Galbraithian concerns' such as the power and dominance of overweening corporations, national and global poverty, and the careless destruction of the natural environment' once again loom large in the public consciousness.Galbraith' s contemporaries included such towering intellects as Paul Samuelson, Robert Solow, Milton Friedman, Wassily Leontief, Simon Kuznets, James Meade, Nicolas...

Download or read book John Kenneth Galbraith and the Future of Economics written by B. Laperche and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-09-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the life and works of John Kenneth Galbraith and demonstrates how his non-conventional approach to economics is critical to understanding the trouble that currently exists within economics and economic policies. With new perspectives on his work, this book proposes new answers to the economic challenges both industrialized and developing economies are facing.

Download or read book The Economics of John Kenneth Galbraith written by Stephen P. Dunn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the continued popular success of his works, John Kenneth Galbraith's contribution to economic theory is rarely recognized by today's economists. This book redresses the balance by providing an introductory and sympathetic discussion of Galbraith's theoretical contributions, introducing the reader to his economics and his broader vision of the economic process.

Download or read book The New Industrial State Second Edition Revised written by John Kenneth Galbraith and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book John Kenneth Galbraith The Affluent Society Other Writings 1952 1967 LOA 208 written by John Kenneth Galbraith and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incisive and original, John Kenneth Galbraith wrote with an eloquence that burst the conventions of his discipline and won a readership none of his fellow economists could match. This Library of America volume, the first devoted to economics, gathers four of his key early works, the books that established him as one of the leading public intellectuals of the last century. In American Capitalism, Galbraith exposes with great panache the myth of American free-market competition. The idea that an impersonal market sets prices and wages, and maintains balance between supply and demand, remained so vital in American economic thought, Galbraith argued, because oligopolistic American businessmen never acknowledged their collective power. Also overlooked was the way that groups such as unions and regulatory agencies react to large oligopolies by exerting countervailing power—a concept that was the book’s lasting contribution. The Great Crash, 1929 offers a gripping account of the most legendary (and thus misunderstood) financial collapse in American history, as well as an inquiry into why it led to sustained depression. Galbraith posits five reasons: unusually high income inequality; a bad, overleveraged corporate structure; an unsound banking system; unbalanced foreign trade; and, finally, “the poor state of economic intelligence.” His account is a trenchant analysis of the 1929 crisis and a cautionary tale of ignorance and hubris among stock-market players; not surprisingly, the book was again a bestseller in the wake of the 2008 economic collapse. In The Affluent Society, the book that introduced the phrase “the conventional wisdom” into the American lexicon, Galbraith takes on a shibboleth of free-market conservatives and Keynesian liberals alike: the paramount importance of production. For Galbraith, the American mania for production continued even in an era of unprecedented affluence, when the basic needs of all but an impoverished minority had easily been met. Thus the creation of new and spurious needs through advertising—leading to skyrocketing consumer debt, and eventually a private sector that is glutted at the expense of a starved public sector. The New Industrial State stands as the most developed exposition of Galbraith’s major themes. Examining the giant postwar corporations, Galbraith argued that the “technostructure” necessary for such vast organizations—comprising specialists in operations, marketing, and R&D—is primarily concerned with reducing risk, not with maximizing profits; it perpetuates stability through “the planning system.” The book concludes with a prescient analysis of the “educational and scientific estate,” which prefigures the “information economy” that has emerged since the book was published. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Download or read book The New Industrial State Or Son of Affluence written by Robert M. Solow and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book John Kenneth Galbraith written by J. Ron Stanfield and published by New York : St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an intellectual portrait of John Kenneth Galbraith, a famous institutional economist who examines the configuration of power by the clusters of mores that comprise institutions. The principal focus of the book is Galbraith's celebrated trilogy, The Affluent Society, The New Industrial State and Economics and the Public Purpose, but works before and after the trilogy are also examined. The Galbraithian System has both modern liberal and radical overtones and suggests that the quality of human life presently suffers needless restriction by the constraints imposed by obstructive institutions. The policy regime necessary to achieve social and economic reform so as to remove these restrictions may be referred to as aggressive social democracy; it includes explicit recognition that the state must intervene to countervail the power of entrenched political economic interests. Aggressive social democracy would also necessarily concern itself with the affirmation of humanity by generous collective support of the arts and letters.

Download or read book Organisational Change Development written by Rica Viljoen and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organisational Change & Development (OCD) is designed to capture leading-edge thinking about OCD in organisations as it merges with traditional African wisdom. It manifests in issues that differ from organisational effectiveness efforts to a highly individualised craft of catalyst practitioner. In an attempt to provide a solid conceptualisation of the field of study, a framework of inclusivity that can be followed, case studies and OCD methodologies, this book strives to combine some of the practices into reality.The book concludes with a chapter that studies international trends in organisational change and development. The assumptions of the evolving field of consulting psychology are incorporated. The multi-cultural nature of the new world of work and the increasingly diverse settings of organisations of the future ask for higher levels of complexity handling ability, systems thinking ability and the ability to be authentic.Content includes: Organisational change and development in the new world of work Organisational change and development methodologies Change models and approaches Human reactions to change Alternative organisational change and development interventions and modalities Value circles as a way of creating inclusivity in emerging economies Measuring the effectiveness of organisational change and development Building strategic architecture Creating radical organisational transformation through translation of strategy Organisational change and development in the next decade

Download or read book A Research Annual written by Luca Fiorito and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol 33 includes research from preeminent scholars such as Malcolm Rutherford, current HES President-elect Jeff E. Biddle, Steven G. Medema, author of The Hesitant Hand: Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic Ideas, leading methodologist John B. Davis, and Robert W. Dimand, one of the world's foremost experts on John Maynard Keynes.

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Download or read book Revival The Megacorp and Oligopoly Micro Foundations of Macro Dynamics 1981 written by Alfred S. Eicher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 1976. This book provides both an explanation of the inflation which has bedeviled economic policy in the West since the end of World War II and a micro-economic theory to purge Keynesian models of the Walrasian strain derived from Marshall's Principles. By focusing on what is taken to be the representative business firm of the twentieth century - the large corporation or megacorp - the microeconomic model presented in the book reverses the usual assumptions of economic analysis. Instead of assuming the existence of firms with no control over prices, the book examines how the megacorp uses its pricing power to finance its own internal rate of growth. The result is a determinant model of how prices are set under the sort of oligopolistic conditions which prevail in most modern industries throughout the world.

Download or read book The Foundations of Institutional Economics written by K. William Kapp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a ground-breaking book about the foundations of institutional economics. K. William Kapp presents the economic role of institutions for economic development, capital formation and technological dynamics in an easily accessible and comprehensive manner. As a front-rank 20th century institutional economist, Kapp pulls together arguments from a variety of sources, including Thorstein Veblen, John Kenneth Galbraith and Gunnar Myrdal, all of which emphasize the crucial role of institutions. The author cements institutional economics as a distinct and coherent framework of analysis to effectively address urgent socio-economic problems, such as environmental disruption and sustainable development. This book begins with a critique of conventional (neoclassical) economics and an overview of the antecedents of institutional economics. The core of the book is formed by the chapters on institutions, human economic behavior and needs, arguing that institutional change is key to directing economic development towards sustainable and adequate living conditions, rather than merely formal growth formulas. The final chapters provide the reader with the institutional theories of capital and technology, showing how capital formation and technological dynamics are determined by institutions, such as the principle of investment for profit. The appendix complements Kapp’s plea for institutional change with articles on science and technology, social costs, substantive economics, and circular and cumulative causation. This book is suited for readers at all levels who are interested in institutional economics, the history of economics thought, political economics as well as ecological and heterodox economics. Researchers and students will find it to be an easily accessible and a concise elaboration on the foundations of institutional economics.

Download or read book The Political Economy of John Kenneth Galbraith written by Brendan Sheehan and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the third-quarter of the twentieth century John Kenneth Galbraith was probably the best-known economist in the world. He gloried in taking the road less travelled, challenging the conventional wisdom, the doctrines and myths, which sustain the social order. But criticism was never enough for Galbraith. He created an alternative analysis, an unconventional wisdom, of how capitalism works: the general theory of advanced development. It emerged over the course of four of Galbraith's key books: American Capitalism (1952), The Affluent Society (1958), The New Industrial State (1967) and Economics and the Public Purpose (1974). It's an audacious economic, political and social theory in the eclectic tradition of North American Institutionalism, which gives a new twist to the insights of Edward Chamberlain, Joan Robinson and John Maynard Keynes. Disappointingly, mainstream economics has ignored it; no trace is to be found in modern economics textbooks. The essay has five objectives. To provide a comprehensive explanation of the general theory of advanced development; to explain how corporate capitalism, faced with the twin threats of either depression or persistent inflation, evolved; to outline the social and political implications of this economic system; to set-out Galbraith's innovative agenda of reform; and to provide a provisional assessment of his contribution to political economy.

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