TY - BOOK AU - Galbraith,John Kenneth TI - American capitalism: the concept of countervailing power AV - HB501 .G3 1956 U1 - 330.12273 PY - 1956/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin KW - Capitalism KW - United States KW - Countervailing power KW - Economic conditions KW - 1918-1945 N1 - Online version: Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006. American capitalism. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1956 (OCoLC)581786110; TOC; 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; Economics N2 - 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 UR - http://www.worldcat.org/title/american-capitalism-the-concept-of-countervailing-power/oclc/168499&referer=brief_results UR - http://lib.ewubd.edu/ebook/1745 ER -