Transformations of Capitalism

Series Preface; R.Jackall & A.J.Vidich Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; H.F.Dahms PART I: THE RISE OF 'BIG BUSINESS': INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY BETWEEN ECONOMIC CONCENTRATION AND FINANCE CAPITALISM The Role of Business in the United States: A Historical Survey; A.D.Chandler, Jr. The Industrial System of the New Order: Business vs. Manufacturing; T.Veblen The Concentration of Economic Power; A.A.Berle & G.C.Means Industrial Society: On the Convergence of Capitalism and Socialism; R.Aron PART II: LAISSEZ-FAIRE IN DECLINE: FROM THE GREAT DEPRESSION INTO THE POST-WAR ERA The End of Laissez-Faire; J.M.Keynes An Explanation of the 1929 Depression; C.P.Kindleberger Our Obsolete Market Mentality ; K.Polanyi Capitalism in the Postwar World; J.A.Schumpeter PART III: THE GOLDEN AGE OF CAPITALISM: LARGE CORPORATIONS AND THE REGULATORY STATE The Technostructure and the New Industrial State; J.K.Galbraith The Military-Industrial Complex and the New Industrial State; W.Adams Planning, Corporatism, and the Capitalist State; B.Jordan Some Contradictions of the Modern Welfare State; C.Offe PART IV: RESTRUCTURING BUSINESS, LABOR AND GOVERNMENT: DEINDUSTRIALIZATION, ENTREPRENEURIALISM, AND THE DECLINE OF LABOUR Closed Plants, Lost Jobs: Consequences of Deindustrialization; B.Bluestone & B.Harrison Toward a Policy Agenda for Competitiveness; S.S.Cohen & J.Zysman Restructuring Employment; J.Kolko The Social Construction of Efficiency; N.Fligstein PART V: MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS PREPARE THE GLOBAL ECONOMY: THE INTEGRATION OF MARKETS AND THE EROSION OF THE NATION-STATE The International Monetary Order in Crisis; F.Block American Society Since the Golden Age of Capitalism; J.Bensman & A.J.Vidich The Multinational Corporations and International Production; R.Gilpin The New Global Economy: Problems and Prospects; G.K.Helleiner Capitalisms in Conflict?: The United States, Europe, and Japan in the Post-Cold War World; B.Stallings & W.Streeck Epilogue; H.F.Dahms Index