Galbraith, Harrington, Heilbroner: Economics and Dissent in an Age of Optimism - Princeton Legacy Library 3636 by Loren J. Okroi Details
In a remarkably clear and flowing manner, Lorraine Okori analyzes the ideas of three prominent reformist critics in the United States and puts their main arguments in the context of…
In a remarkably clear and flowing manner, Lorraine Okori analyzes the ideas of three prominent reformist critics in the United States and puts their main arguments in the context of America's post-war economic, social and political history. Thus, it offers not only a brilliant introduction to American social thought since the 1950s, but also a broad study of the contemporary failure of American liberal ideology.
He explains the work of these three men - all of whom move easily between academia, politics, government, or the press - and it is clear that the current political debates have not even begun to solve the dilemmas of their writing. open.
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Galbraith, a Harvard economist and socialist who developed the concept of a "new industrial state." Michael Harrington, the actual leader of the American Socialist Movement, who revealed the existence of "the other America"; and Robert Heilbroner, the revolutionary economic thinker who questioned the naive optimism of Americans even before it eroded considerably in the mid-1970s. In this book they appear as individuals, as thinkers, and as part of a larger picture of American efforts to reconcile democratic values and social social goals with modern institutional capitalism.
The study begins with pictures of the American economy and society at the end of the civil war, and discusses the enormous changes resulting from the rapid industrialization that followed. The central part revolves around Galbraith, Harrington and Heilbroner and explores their contributions to intellectual and political discourse on the key issues facing America in the decades following 1945: the evolutionary path of administrative capitalism.
The persistence of poverty and class divisions; the expansion of the welfare state and the public sector in general; and the assault on social capitalism by the new right in the 1980s. The concluding chapter addresses the causes and consequences of strict adherence to liberal ideology by the Americans, the philosophical origins and rules of that set of beliefs, and their future prospects.
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