Business as a System of Power (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Robert A. Brady

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440081425 ISBN 13 : 9781440081422

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Understanding power in modern economies and politics
A clear-eyed examination of how organized business power shapes politics and society. The book argues that democracy struggles when economic power goes unchecked and that state and market increasingly depend on one another.

This edition surveys how technology, capitalism, and organization intertwine across nations. It highlights how perceptions of democracy, business, and policy drift when power becomes centralized in large firms and their networks.

• Explains the link between economic power and political influence in democratic societies


• Shows how business organization crosses borders and reshapes policy


• Describes the rising collaboration between state power and private enterprise


• Offers historical context for the growth of industrial organizations and their public roles

Ideal for readers seeking a concise, historical look at the forces that push economies and governments toward greater coordination — or tension — in the name of progress.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Particularly when long-established institutional systems have been breaking up under them have they tended to mistake symptom for cause and to greet predictions of major change with incredulity and aversion. In the main, they wrestle with obvious immediacies in familiar terms; for the rest, the deeper tendencies, they prefer to wait and see. If such a policy has seemed to be not without some justification in more leisurely eras of change, it is today nothing less than disastrous. For we are living through one of the great climactic eras of history, a major faulting of the institutional crust. A symptom of the extent of current change is the extreme ideological confusion. Fascist monopoly capitalism adopts National Socialism ;organized industry opposes organized labor in the name of democracy ;and ideological opposites fight side by side for goals that sound alike only because they are left vague. In such a time, when men and their most cherished concerns are being dragged headlong at the heels of confused events, the one chance for constructive recovery of control lies in the diagnosis of underlying causes. In this book Dr. Brady cuts through to the central problem disrupting our world, the most dangerous issue democracy faces. This problem is not basically created by A dolf Hitler and the A xis nations, but by the organized economic power backing the Hitlers in nation after nation over the industrial world as a device for shoring up for yet a while longer a disintegrating economic system.
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Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Business as a System of Power

Men have always experienced difficulty in perceiving the thrust of deeper tendencies beneath the surface phenomena of their day. Particularly when long-established institutional systems have been breaking up under them have they tended to mistake symptom for cause and to greet predictions of major change with incredulity and aversion. In the main, they wrestle with obvious immediacies in familiar terms; for the rest, the deeper tendencies, they prefer to wait and see. If such a policy has seemed to be not without some justification in more leisurely eras of change, it is today nothing less than disastrous. For we are living through one of the great climactic eras of history, a major faulting of the institutional crust. A symptom of the extent of current change is the extreme ideological confusion. Fascist monopoly capitalism adopts "National Socialism"; organized industry opposes organized labor in the name of "democracy"; and ideological opposites fight side by side for goals that sound alike only because they are left vague. In such a time, when men and their most cherished concerns are being dragged headlong at the heels of confused events, the one chance for constructive recovery of control lies in the diagnosis of underlying causes.

In this book Dr. Brady cuts through to the central problem disrupting our world, the most dangerous issue democracy faces. This problem is not basically created by Adolf Hitler and the Axis nations, but by the organized economic power backing the Hitlers in nation after nation over the industrial world as a device for shoring up for yet a while longer a disintegrating economic system.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1440081425
• ISBN 13: 9781440081422
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 364
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