Economics and the public purpose / John Kenneth Galbraith
Imprint
New York : Signet Book, 1973
Descript
xi,351 p. ; 19 cm
CONTENT
The uses of an economic system and economics -- The neo-classical model -- The neo-classical model II : The state -- Consumption and the concept of the household -- The general theory of advanced develment -- Services and the market system -- The market system and the arts -- Self-exploitation and exploitation -- The nature of collective intelligence -- How power is used : The protective purposes -- The affirmative purposes -- How proces are set -- Costs, contracts, co-ordination and the tendency of imperialism -- Persuasion-and power -- The revised economics of technical innovation -- The sources of public policy : A summary -- The transnational system -- Instability and the two systems -- Inflation and the two systems -- The economics of anxiety : A test -- The negative strategy of economic reform -- The emancipation of belief -- The equitable household and beyond -- The emancipation of the state -- Policy for the market system -- The socialist imperative -- The environment -- The public state -- Fiscal policy, monetary policy and controls -- Co-ordination, planning and the prospect