American Capitalism

  • American Capitalism: New Histories
    American Capitalism: New Histories
    By Sven Beckert, Christine Desan

    A major statement for a wide-open field, this book demonstrates the breadth and scope of the work that the history of capitalism can provoke.

  • American Capitalism: A Reader
    American Capitalism: A Reader
    By Edward E. Baptist, Louis Hyman

    American Capitalism: A Reader will help you to understand how the United States became the world’s leading economic power, while revealing essential lessons about what has been and what will be possible in capitalism’s ongoing ...

  • American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power
    American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power
    By John Galbraith

    In his new introduction to this classic text on political economy, Galbraith reasserts the validity of the core thesis of American Capitalism: The best and established answer to economic power is the building of countervailing power.

  • American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power
    American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power
    By John Kenneth Galbraith

    An economist considers the American economy and presents the theory that American capitalism has justified intself and a "countervailing power" has developed since World War II in the form of...

  • American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century
    American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century
    By Nelson Lichtenstein

    Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century Nelson Lichtenstein ... More detailed accounts of these episodes can be found in Judith Sealander, Private Wealth and Public Life: Foundation Philanthropy and the Reshaping ...

  • American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power
    American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power
    By John Galbraith

    In his new introduction to this classic text on political economy, Galbraith reasserts the validity of the core thesis of American Capitalism: The best and established answer to economic power is the building of countervailing power.

  • American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power
    American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power
    By John Kenneth Galbraith

    In this book the author has translated five postwar experimental Japanese plays and recreated the artistic, social and spiritual milieu in which they were created. He describes the turning point...

  • American Capitalism: The Concepts of Countervailing Power
    American Capitalism: The Concepts of Countervailing Power
    By John Kenneth Galbraith

    This is a new release of the original 1952 edition.