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

Power and democracy at stake: how organized business shapes politics and society.

This exploration reveals how economic power and political power intertwine, and why the balance between them matters for democracy today. This book analyzes the long-running tension between capitalism, state power, and democratic ideals. It explains how powerful business interests organize, influence policy, and shape social outcomes across nations, with implications for readers curious about economics, politics, and history.

• How power shifts between business, government, and the public in modern economies
• Historical patterns of organization that connect industry, policy, and democracy
• Ways organized business frames public debate and policy to advance its interests
• Examples of how economic power can affect national and global politics

Ideal for readers of political economy, modern history, and business culture who want a clear view of how power operates beyond headlines. This edition is a guide to understanding the forces that mold markets, institutions, and democratic life.

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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