John Kenneth Galbraith /
Stanfield, J. Ron
John Kenneth Galbraith / James Ronald Stanfield and Jacqueline Bloom Stanfield - New York: Palgrave Macmillan, c2011. - xi, 251 p.; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-244) and index.
1 Political Economy and the Useful Economist
From the farm to the eve of war
From war to Harvard redux
From affluence to the turbulent 1960s
The New Industrial State and beyond
The public intellectual
The dissenting Keynesian political economist
The American pragmatist
The heterodox economist
The best-selling author
2 Political Economy in Agriculture, Depression, War, and Peace
Agricultural and industrial organization
We are Keynesians now
Winning the peace
A Theory of Price Control
3 Political Economy and the Art of Controversy
American Capitalism
The microeconomic debility of the conventional model
The memory of the Great Slump
The paradox of success
The concept of countervailing power
The problem of restraint
The Great Crash
The Art of Controversy
4 The Political Economy of Affluence
The Affluent Society
The conventional wisdom
The dependence effect
The theory of social balance
The Liberal Hour
Economic Development
5 The Political Economy of the Great Corporation
Origin of the great corporation
A note on method
The imperative organization
The nature of the great corporation
The technostructure
The great corporation and society
The technostructure and society
The revised sequence
The social predicament
The prospect for reform
6 Political Economy and the Public Purpose
The second crisis of economic theory
The imagery of choice
The dual economy redux
The state and the global economy
The transnational context
Economic development redux
The test of anxiety
Belief and the agenda for reform
7 Political Economy in the Conservative Hour
Economic crises and the crisis of economics
The Anatomy of Power
The Culture of Contentment
The Good Society
8 Political Economy and the Galbraithian Legacy
Organization and adaptive efficiency
Heterodox economic agency
The cadre of progressive public intellectuals
The good society and the reform agenda
Conclusion
9780230242685 (hardback)
Economists--United States
Economics--History.--United States
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy
923.3 / STA/J
John Kenneth Galbraith / James Ronald Stanfield and Jacqueline Bloom Stanfield - New York: Palgrave Macmillan, c2011. - xi, 251 p.; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-244) and index.
1 Political Economy and the Useful Economist
From the farm to the eve of war
From war to Harvard redux
From affluence to the turbulent 1960s
The New Industrial State and beyond
The public intellectual
The dissenting Keynesian political economist
The American pragmatist
The heterodox economist
The best-selling author
2 Political Economy in Agriculture, Depression, War, and Peace
Agricultural and industrial organization
We are Keynesians now
Winning the peace
A Theory of Price Control
3 Political Economy and the Art of Controversy
American Capitalism
The microeconomic debility of the conventional model
The memory of the Great Slump
The paradox of success
The concept of countervailing power
The problem of restraint
The Great Crash
The Art of Controversy
4 The Political Economy of Affluence
The Affluent Society
The conventional wisdom
The dependence effect
The theory of social balance
The Liberal Hour
Economic Development
5 The Political Economy of the Great Corporation
Origin of the great corporation
A note on method
The imperative organization
The nature of the great corporation
The technostructure
The great corporation and society
The technostructure and society
The revised sequence
The social predicament
The prospect for reform
6 Political Economy and the Public Purpose
The second crisis of economic theory
The imagery of choice
The dual economy redux
The state and the global economy
The transnational context
Economic development redux
The test of anxiety
Belief and the agenda for reform
7 Political Economy in the Conservative Hour
Economic crises and the crisis of economics
The Anatomy of Power
The Culture of Contentment
The Good Society
8 Political Economy and the Galbraithian Legacy
Organization and adaptive efficiency
Heterodox economic agency
The cadre of progressive public intellectuals
The good society and the reform agenda
Conclusion
9780230242685 (hardback)
Economists--United States
Economics--History.--United States
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy
923.3 / STA/J