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    <body><![CDATA[I read this when it was first published in 1967.  As part of my freshman Honors Econ course I wrote a blistering critique of what I still consider one of the worst book of economics I have ever read.  Today  Paul Krugman stands in for Galbraith as the best example of an advocate of &quot;bad&quot; e...]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[ The New Industrial State is a 1967 book by John Kenneth Galbraith. It asserts that within the industrial sectors of modern capitalist societies, traditional supply &amp; demand mechanisms are supplanted by the planning of large corporations, using techniques like advertising &amp; vertical integration. This is necessitated by the long-term planning required for production processes involving advanced technology. These same technological challenges were answered with similar types of planning in Soviet societies. Thus perfect competition as understood in classical economic theory is no longer a useful explanation of the industrial sector altho still useful in sectors dominated by small firms. Traditional notions of risk associated with small enterprises are less relevant to large industrial enterprises &amp; conglomerates. Risk diminishes by advantages large enterprises have in securing longer term supplier &amp; labor contracts, &amp; the use of financial instruments like commodity futures to mitigate raw material price volatility. Political influence of large industrial concerns in government economic &amp; labor policy is another factor tending to create the stable market conditions necessary for corporations' long-term production planning. The New Industrial State covers much the same ground as The Affluent Society of 1958 but substantially extends those ideas.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this enjoyable work alongside its companion volumes, American Capitalism and Economics and the Public Purpose, for the course in Capitalism, Democracy, Socialism taught under Loyola University Chicago's Philosophy Department in the first semester of 1981/82.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's hard to understand how such a witty person can be such a dull writer.  And his business commentary hasn't stood up very well either.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this concept - at the time - so did John Kennedy and so did Galbraith but even he admitted later that all of it simply did not work.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The first half is great, the second half starts to repeat itself.]]></body>
    
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