The New Industrial State
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The New Industrial State

  1. 576 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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The New Industrial State

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. Contents
  6. General Editor’s Introduction
  7. Foreword
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction to the Fourth Edition
  10. 1. Change and the Planning System
  11. 2. The Imperatives of Technology
  12. 3. The Nature of Industrial Planning
  13. 4. Planning and the Supply of Capital
  14. 5. Capital and Power
  15. 6. The Technostructure
  16. 7. The Corporation
  17. 8. The Entrepreneur and the Technostructure
  18. 9. A Digression on the Firm under Socialism
  19. 10. The Approved Contradiction
  20. 11. The General Theory of Motivation
  21. 12. Motivation in Perspective
  22. 13. Motivation and the Technostructure
  23. 14. The Principle of Consistency
  24. 15. The Goals of the Planning System
  25. 16. Prices in the Planning System
  26. 17. Prices in the Planning System (Continued)
  27. 18. The Management of Specific Demand
  28. 19. The Revised Sequence
  29. 20. The Regulation of Aggregate Demand
  30. 21. The Nature of Employment and Unemployment
  31. 22. The Control of the Wage-Price Spiral
  32. 23. The Planning System and the Union I
  33. 24. The Planning System and the Union II
  34. 25. The Educational and Scientific Estate
  35. 26. The Planning System and the State I
  36. 27. The Planning System and the State II
  37. 28. A Further Summary
  38. 29. The Planning System and the Arms Race
  39. 30. The Further Dimensions
  40. 31. The Planning Lacunae
  41. 32. Of Toil
  42. 33. Education and Emancipation
  43. 34. The Political Lead
  44. 35. The Future of the Planning System
  45. An Addendum on Economic Method and the Nature of Social Argument
  46. Index