Innovation, Evolution and Economic Change: New Ideas in the Tradition of GalbraithBlandine Laperche, James K. Galbraith, Dimitri Uzunidis John Kenneth Galbraith was an eminent economist and proponent of change. The contributors to the book further his analysis on the evolution of capitalism; taking into account changes to the general economic climate since the publication of J.K. Galbraith |
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Part I Changing Capitalism Shareholders Versus Managers | 15 |
1 Professionals capitalism and democracy | 17 |
2 From one managerial capitalism to another | 38 |
3 The end of capitalism JK Galbraith versus K Marx and JA Schumpeter | 53 |
4 The power of large companies | 71 |
5 Is capitalism still Galbraithian? | 86 |
PART II Globalized Technostructures Towards a theory of the Corrupt Corporation | 105 |
10 The global restructuring of capitalism new technologies and intellectual property | 185 |
Part III Charting the Future Innovation State Power and the Market System | 203 |
11 Galbraith and the political economy of technological innovation critical perspectives and a heterodox synthesis | 205 |
12 Knowledge and innovation power and counterpower | 229 |
13 Science and governance in the national systems of innovation approach | 241 |
14 Privatization and the management of intellectual property rights the case of the British defecne research establishments | 264 |
15 Galbraith and institutionalist analysis an assessment based on the US militaryindustrial system transformations in the 1990s | 278 |
16 What has happened to the public sector? Marketization and the financial logic | 302 |
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Page ii - New Directions in Modern Economics presents a challenge to orthodox economic thinking. It focuses on new ideas emanating from radical traditions including post-Keynesian, Kaleckian, neo-Ricardian and Marxian. The books in the series do not adhere rigidly to any single school of thought but attempt to present a positive alternative to the conventional wisdom.
Page 2 - Capitalism, then, is by nature a form or method of economic change and not only never is but never can be stationary.