The Rise of Planning in Industrial America, 1865-1914
| By: | Richard Adelstein |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9781138243828 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781136489709 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2012 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Central economic planning is often associated with failed state socialism, and modern capitalism celebrated as its antithesis. This book shows that central planning is not always, or even primarily, a state enterprise, and that the giant industrial corporations that dominated the American economy through the twentieth century were, first and foremost, unprecedented examples of successful, consensual central planning at a very large scale.