Transformations of Capitalism or Collected Papers in Theoretical Economics

Transformations of Capitalism: Economy, Society, and the State in the Modern Times

Author: Harry F Ed F Dahms

A diverse, complex, and stable, yet volatile system, capitalism has undergone fundamental transformations over the past century. Entrepreneurial capitalism has become increasingly managerial and corporate in nature. No longer dominated by industrial production, capitalist economies are now geared toward supplying services and toward integrating the working class into capitalist society. Individual companies have given rise to complex relationships between state, economy, and multinational corporations.

Focusing on the structural shifts in advanced political economies, this volume brings to light trends that occur "below" the surface of economic activity. The essays identify the basic patterns of those transformations and their implications--social, political, and economic--for contemporary and future capitalisms.

Contributors: Walter Adams, Raymond Aron, Joseph Bensman, Adolph A. Berle, Jr., Fred L. Block, Barry Bluestone, Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Neil Fligstein, John Kenneth Galbraith, Robert Gilpin, Bennett Harrison, Gerald K. Helleiner, Bill Jordon, John Maynard Keynes, Charles P. Kindleberger, Joyce Kolko, Gardiner C. Means, Claus Offe, Karl Polanyi, Joseph Schumpeter, Barbara Stallings, Wolfgang Streeck, Thorstein Veblen, Arthur J. Vidich, John Zysman.

Table of Contents:

	Series Preface
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	The Rise of "Big Business": Industrial Society between Economic Concentration and Finance Capitalism
1	The Role of Business in the United States: A Historical Survey (1972)	33
2	The Industrial System of the New Order: Business vs. Manufacturing (1923)	51
3	The Concentration of Economic Power (1932)	66
4	Industrial Society: On the Convergence of Capitalism and Socialism (1961)	86
Pt. II	Laissez-faire in Decline: from the Great Depression into the Post-war Era
5	The End of Laissez-faire (1926)	101
6	An Explanation of the 1929 Depression (1973)	121
7	Our Obsolete Market Mentality (1947)	137
8	Capitalism in the Postwar World (1943)	151
Pt. III	The Golden Age of Capitalism: Large Corporations and the Regulatory State
9	The Technostructure, the Industrial System and the State (1967)	167
10	The Military-industrial Complex and the New Industrial State (1968)	184
11	Planning, Corporatism, and the Capitalist State (1985)	201
12	Some Contradictions of the Modern Welfare State (1981)	222
Pt. IV	Restructuring Business, Labor, and Government: Deindustrialization, Entrepreneurialism, and the Decline of Labor
13	Closed Plants, Lost Jobs: Consequences of Deindustrialization (1982)	239
14	Toward a Policy Agenda for Competitiveness (1987)	257
15	Restructuring and the Working Class (1988)	274
16	The Social Construction of Efficiency (1990)	296
Pt. V	Multinational Corporations Prepare the Global Economy: The Integration of Markets and the Erosion of the Nation-State
17	The International Monetary Order in Crisis (1977)	317
18	American Society Since the Golden Age of Capitalism (1987)	342
19	The Multinational Corporations and International Production (1987)	364
20	The New Global Economy: Problems and Prospects (1990)	385
21	Capitalisms in Conflict? The United States, Europe, and Japan in the Post-Cold War World (1995)	398
	Epilog	416
	Acknowledgments	433
	Notes on the Contributors	436
	Index of Names	443
	Index of Subjects	449

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Collected Papers in Theoretical Economics: Rationality, Games, and Strategic Behaviour, Vol. 2

Author: Kaushik Basu

The rise of game theory around the middle of the twentieth century has profoundly affected the way economic theory is practiced. The present book is a collection of Kaushik Basu's papers on game theory and, more generally, strategic analysis. It includes papers in both pure and applied theory.