The New Industrial State

Name: The New Industrial State
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith

by John Kenneth Galbraith

Analysis of how large corporations now drive government policy and economy

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John Kenneth Galbraith

Canadian-American economist and public intellectual whose The Affluent Society argued that America was rich in private goods and poor in public ones. The New Industrial State examined the corporation's role in managing demand. He wrote with wit and accessibility that made him the most read economist of his era.

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