Description
This second edition of Professor Galbraith's revolutionary bestseller adds new facts, new figures and a new introduction to his full-scale Investigation of the corporate society which is upon us, and into which he allowed a first glimpse with The Affluent Society.
With his customary wit and style Galbraith demonstrates how we live today in a world of corporate planning, in which power has already passed from stockholders, unions and even company directors to the
'Technostructure', which alone possesses the information necessary to wield it. Technology, in both Russia and America, has taken on a life of its own and relegated to the scrap-heap both socialism (an appeal to nostalgia') and orthodox capitalism.
In a world where, as he argues, conventional economics is designed to perpetuate myths, only the growth of an 'educational and scientific estate' offers us hope.
ISBN:0140210822
