ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |77 pages
Islands of conscious power
chapter |23 pages
Organizing production
chapter |24 pages
Planning
chapter |24 pages
Contracts in performance
part |147 pages
Redwoods in the garden