The Economy as a System of Power
Subtitle: Corporate Systems
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9781315131863
Subjects: Institutional economics; Power (Social sciences); Corporations; Industries; Social aspects; International economic relations; Economic conditions; Institutionnalisme; Pouvoir (Sciences sociales); Sociétés; Conditions économiques; Economic history
Description: "The articles in this volume address the fact and use of economic power in the American economy. The institutional economists' perspective exhibited here reflects a century-long focus on and concern with economic power begun by Thorstein Veblen. This volume presents a new generation of institutionalist scholars who add to that tradition a fresh and penetrating analysis of contemporary power centers and assessments of their use of power."--Provided by publisher
Table of contents: title: Part Part I: The Economy as a System of Power: Introduction; title: chapter 1 Economics: Allocation or Valuation?; title: chapter 2 Power and Illusion in the Marketplace: Institutions and Technology; title: chapter 3 The Impact of Economics on Technology; title: chapter 4 Confronting Power in Economics: A Pragmatic Evaluation; title: chapter 5 Power and Economic Performance; title: chapter 6 Power: An Institutional Framework of Analysis; title: part Part II: The Corporate System: Introduction; title: chapter 7 The Problems and Prospects of Collective Capitalism; title: chapter 8 The Rise of the Corporate State in America; title: chapter 9 Organizational Structure, Technological Advance, and the New Tasks of Government; title: chapter 10 An Institutional Analysis of Corporate Power; title: chapter 11 Social Value Theory, Corporate Power, and Political Elites: Appraisals of Lindblom's Politics and Markets; title: chapter 12 Transfer of Control in Large Corporations: 1905-1919; title: chapter 13 Centralized Private Sector Planning: An Institutionalist's Perspective on the Contemporary U.S. Economy; title: chapter 14 Political and Policy Implications of Centralized Private Sector Planning; title: chapter 15 Oligopolistic Cooperation: Conceptual and Empirical Evidence of Market Structure Evolution; title: chapter 16 Idealism and Realism: An Institutionalist View of Corporate Power in the Regulated Utilities; title: chapter 17 Corporate Power and Economic Sabotage; title: chapter 18 Corporate Size and the Bailout Factor.