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Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006.

American capitalism; the concept of countervailing power. - Rev. ed. - Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1956. - 208 p. 21 cm.

Online version:
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006.
American capitalism.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1956
(OCoLC)581786110

The insecurity of illusion --
The foundation of the faith --
The problem of power --
The abandonment of the model --
The ogre of economic power --
The depression psychosis --
The economics of technical development --
The unseemly economics of opulence --
The theory of countervailing power --
Countervailing power and the state --
The case of agriculture --
The role of decentralized decision --
The role of centralized decision --
The problem of restraint. TOC

Summary:
An economist considers the American economy and presents the theory that American capitalism has justified intself and a "countervailing power" has developed since World War II in the form of "strong buyers" to replace the dying competition among settlers.



LCCN: 56004515

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Capitalism--United States.
Countervailing power--United States.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945.

LC Class. No.: HB501 / .G3 1956

Dewey Class. No.: 330.12273 / GAA 1956