John Kenneth Galbraith (eBook)

James Ronald Stanfield (Autor)

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2016 | 2010
XI, 251 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-0-230-30244-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This book examines the life and work of John Kenneth Galbraith, a truly iconic figure in progressive modern liberalism and a seminal influence in the rise of heterodox political economy. It emphasizes his continuing relevance to the current research of today, and to the multifaceted crisis of democratic capitalism.

Autor

JAMES RONALD STANFIELD is Emeritus Professor of Economics at Colorado State University, USA.   JACQUELINE STANFIELD is Emerita Professor and Chair of Sociology, University of Northern Colorado, USA.   They have done collaborative research on Galbraith, consumer behaviour, gender and family issues, and ecological and social sustainability. The Galbraithian influence is apparent in their work on consumer craft knowledge, the Nurturance Gap, and the Great Capitalist Restoration. From Galbraith's work, as well that of Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, Max Weber, Joseph Schumpeter, Karl Polanyi, Adolph Lowe, and Robert Heilbroner, it is evident that lives and livelihood, or the place of economy in society, has been and remains the central problematic of the capitalist social structure of accumulation, growth, and change.

Inhalt

Cover 1
Title 4
Copyright 5
Dedication 6
Contents 8
Preface and Acknowledgements 10
1 Political Economy and the Useful Economist 13
From the farm to the eve of war 14
From war to Harvard redux 18
From affluence to the turbulent 1960s 23
The New Industrial State and beyond 29
The public intellectual 35
The dissenting Keynesian political economist 36
The American pragmatist 38
The heterodox economist 42
The best-selling author 45
2 Political Economy in Agriculture, Depression, War, and Peace 50
Agricultural and industrial organization 50
We are Keynesians now 56
Winning the peace 61
A Theory of Price Control 64
3 Political Economy and the Art of Controversy 73
American Capitalism 74
The microeconomic debility of the conventional model 75
The memory of the Great Slump 79
The paradox of success 82
The concept of countervailing power 84
The problem of restraint 89
The Great Crash 92
The Art of Controversy 99
4 The Political Economy of Affluence 106
The Affluent Society 107
The conventional wisdom 108
The dependence effect 112
The theory of social balance 117
The Liberal Hour 123
Economic Development 127
5 The Political Economy of the Great Corporation 132
Origin of the great corporation 133
A note on method 133
The imperative organization 136
The nature of the great corporation 138
The technostructure 138
The great corporation and society 142
The technostructure and society 143
The revised sequence 148
The social predicament 151
The prospect for reform 156
6 Political Economy and the Public Purpose 160
The second crisis of economic theory 161
The imagery of choice 166
The dual economy redux 168
The state and the global economy 171
The transnational context 171
Economic development redux 173
The test of anxiety 178
Belief and the agenda for reform 181
7 Political Economy in the Conservative Hour 187
Economic crises and the crisis of economics 188
The Anatomy of Power 193
The Culture of Contentment 197
The Good Society 200
8 Political Economy and the Galbraithian Legacy 212
Organization and adaptive efficiency 215
Heterodox economic agency 226
The cadre of progressive public intellectuals 233
The good society and the reform agenda 237
Conclusion 242
References 245
Index 257

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.4.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Great Thinkers in Economics
• Reihe/Serie: Great Thinkers in Economics
• Zusatzinfo: XI, 251 p.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Capitalism • Crisis • Political Economy
• ISBN-10: 0-230-30244-0 / 0230302440
• ISBN-13: 978-0-230-30244-0 / 9780230302440