by John Kenneth Galbraith · Houghton-Mifflin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780395124758
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«The New Industrial State» is the economics essay by John Kenneth Galbraith, published by Houghton-Mifflin in paperback (423 pages, in English).
Galbraith argues that the United States is no longer a free-enterprise economy, but an industrial state controlled by large corporations. These use advertising to manage demand and create artificial needs; multinationals extend that power on a global scale, to secure profits, not social welfare.
Second revised and updated edition, published in 1971; the work originally appeared in 1967. Includes bibliographical references.
For readers of economics and politics, interested in the critique of corporate power and the workings of American capitalism.
John Kenneth Galbraith, also known as J. K. Galbraith or Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s. As an economist, he leaned toward post-Keynesian economics from an institutionalist perspective. He served as the deputy director of the powerful Office of Price Administration (OPA) during World War II in charge of stabilizing all prices, wages and rents in the American economy, to combat the threat of inflation and hoarding during a time of shortages and rationing, a task which was successfully accomplished.
