Power in Business and the State

An Historical Analysis of its Concentration
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-415-24697-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 549 g

Reihe: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

It is commonplace that political power is becoming more centralized and remote: faceless people, sometimes in unknown places, determine our circumstances and our opportunities. This ground breaking book argues that this happened through a slow development which began before globalization.
Power in Business and the State queries our freedom to make our own history. Current circumstances may be so far from our own choosing that our history is now being made for us, rather than something we control ourselves. Political power is so centralized, and economic power so concentrated, that popular control of democratic government has become increasingly difficult.
The sheer magnitude of the author's research underpinning this book, and the uncluttered methodological framework in which it is presented, provides a highly readable text.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bealey, Frank

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft: Theorie & Allgemeines
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Staats- und Regierungsformen, Staatslehre
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction
2. Early intimations of modern times
3. The dynamic state and entrepreneurial capitalism
4. Corporate capitalism, democracy and collectivism
5. Concentration of power in world war and depression: from the collectivist to the interventionist state
6. Centralization of economic leadership and local democracy: from the interventionist to the managerial state
7. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Frank Bealey