Galbraith Harrington Heilbroner Economics and Dissent in an Age of Optimism 1st Edition by Loren Okroi 0691607591 9780691607597

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ISBN 10: 0691607591

ISBN 13: 9780691607597

Author: Loren J. Okroi

In a remarkably lucid and flowing style, Loren Okroi analyzes the ideas of three leading reformer-critics in the United States and places their main arguments in the context of the economic, social, and political history of postwar America. In so doing, he provides not only a skillful introduction to American social thought since the 1950s but also a wide-ranging examination of the contemporary failures of American liberal ideology. As he explicates the works of these three men–all of whom moved easily between the academic world and the arenas of politics, government, or journalism–it becomes clear that present policy debates have not even begun to resolve the dilemmas their writings have exposed. Millions of readers know J. K. Galbraith, the renowned Harvard economist and social theorist who developed the concept of the “New Industrial State”; Michael Harrington, the de facto leader of the American socialist movement who revealed the existence of the “other America”; and Robert Heilbroner, the incisive economic thinker who questioned the naive optimism of Americans even before it significantly eroded in the mid-1970s. In this book they emerge as individuals, as thinkers, and as part of a larger picture of American efforts to reconcile democratic values and humane social goals with modern corporate capitalism. The study begins with a portrait of the U.S. economy and society at the end of the Civil War and discusses the momentous changes brought about by the rapid industrialization that followed. The central portion revolves around Galbraith, Harrington, and Heilbroner and explores their contributions to the intellectual and political discourse on key issues confronting America in the decades after 1945: the evolutionary trajectory of managerial capitalism; the persistence of poverty and class divisions; the expansion of the welfare state and the public sector in general; and the assault on welfare capitalism by the New Right in the 1980s. The concluding chapter examines the causes and consequences of the fervent adherence of Americans to liberal ideology, the origins and philosophical bases of that set of beliefs, and its future prospects. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Galbraith Harrington Heilbroner Economics and Dissent in an Age of Optimism 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1. The Great Transformation: American Economic Thought, 1865-1945

THE THINKERS

I. The Technological Imperative: John Kenneth Galbraith and the New Industrial State

Chapter 2. The New Capitalism

Chapter 3. The Industrial State

Chapter 4. Galbraith and American Capitalism

II. The Ironic Quest: Michael Harrington and the Socialist Dream

Chapter 5. The New Poverty

Chapter 6. The Great Society

Chapter 7. Harrington and American Socialism

III. Capitalism in Transition: Robert Heilbroner and the Crisis of Business Civilization

Chapter 8. The New Pessimism

Chapter 9. The New Right

Chapter 10. Heilbroner and Corporate Society

THE UNRESOLVED DILEMMAS

Chapter 11. Economics, Power, Justice: American Liberalism and Democracy

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