Beschreibung:
Central economic planning is often associated with failed state socialism, and modern capitalism celebrated as its antithesis. This book shows that central planning is not always, or even primarily, a state enterprise, and that the giant industrial corporations that dominated the American economy through the twentieth century were, first and foremost, unprecedented examples of successful, consensual central planning at a very large scale.
Introduction: The Tripod of Power Part I: Islands of Conscious Power 1. Organizing Production 2. Planning 3. Concts in Performance Interlude: Choosing the Future Part II: Redwoods in the Garden 4. Taylor's Bargain 5. Antitrusts 6. Deciding for Bigness 7. Contracts at Liberty Epilogue: 'War is the Health of the State'