Transformations of Capitalism
Economy, Society and the State in Modern Times
Published on 7. June 2000
Book
Hardback
472 pages
978-0-333-67420-8 (ISBN)
Description
A diverse, complex, and stable, yet volatile system, capitalism has undergone fundamental transformations during the 20th century. Entrepreneurial capitalism has become increasingly managerial and corporate in nature. The influence of laissez faire policies waned for decades, only to experience a recent renaissance. No longer dominated by industrial production, capitalist economies are 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. This book focuses on these changes, providing a perspective of the whole century. It aims to set the stage for he analysis of the logic of globalization, and subsequent trends in capitalism.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
tables, index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
733 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-67420-8 (9780333674208)
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06/2000
Palgrave Macmillan
€48.50
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HARRY F. DAHMS has been Assistant Professor of Sociology at Florida State University in Tallahassee since 1993, where he teaches courses in social theory and economic sociology. He received his Ph.D in sociology at the New School for Social Research in New York in 1993 and his M.A. in sociology, economics and statistics at the University of Konstanz, Germany, in 1986. He has written numerous articles on capitalism and social theory.
Content
Part 1 The rise of "big business" - industrial society between economic concentration and finance capitalism: the role of business in the United States - a historical survey, A.D. Chandler Jr.; the industrial system of the new order - business vs. manufacturing, T. Veblen; the concentration of economic power, A.A. Berle and G.C. Means; industrial society - on the convergence of capitalism and socialism, R. Aron; Part 2 Laissez faire in decline - from the great depression into the post war era: the end of laissez faire, J.M. Keynes; an explanation of the 1929 depression, C.P. Kindleberger; our obsolete market mentality, K. Polanyi; capitalism in the post-war world, J.A. Schumpeter. Part 3 The golden age of capitalism - large corporations and the regulatory state: the technostructure and the new industrial state, J.K. Galbraith; the military industrial complex and the new industrial state, W. Adams; planning, corporatism, and the capitalist state, B. Jordan; some contradictions of the modern welfare state, C. Offe. Part 4 restructuring business, labor and government - de-industrialization, entrepreneurialism, and the decline of labour: closed plants, lost jobs - consequences of de-industrialization, B. Bluestone, B. Harrison; toward a policy agenda for competitiveness, S.S. Cohen, J. Zysman; restructuring employment, J. Kolko; the social construction of efficiency, N. Fligstein. Part 4 Multinational corporations prepare the global economy - the integration of markets and the erosion of the nation state: the international monetary order in crisis, F. Block; American society since the golden age of capitalism, J. Bensman, A.J. Vidich; the multinational corporations and international production, R. Gilpin; the new global economy - problems and prospects, G.K. Helleiner; capitalisms in conflict? - the United States, Europe, and Japan in the post-Cold War world, B. Stallings, W. Streeck.