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...Myriad of Myths. Galbraith's latest published work, The New Industrial State, a bestseller for the past 31 weeks, is an even more ambitious book. In it, Galbraith sets out to describe the modern economic structure minus the myriad myths that surround it. What he finds in the U.S. is a phalanx of giant companies, perhaps 500 in all, dominating the landscape. The competitive market has largely disappeared, the victim of an advertising machine that creates and manipulates demand (mostly, he maintains, by means of commercial TV). Well-schooled technicians and managers?the "technostructure"?run the show. Though...
...good as your last balance sheet?these are facts of life that Ken ignores," says M.I.T.'s Paul Samuelson, a former Kennedy adviser whose economics texts are used on more college campuses than any others. "The book makes modern corporations into kings who rule unilaterally. They don't. They're constitutional monarchs; they try to shape the market, but they can't make the market react." Nor do TV's insistent pitches always succeed in artificially stimulating demand?as manufacturers of detergents, breakfast cereals and the Edsel ruefully concede...
Like FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, the General is something of a Washington institution. He has been associated with the Selective Service System since its infancy in 1936. In fact, he was promoted to brigadier general in 1940 for his work in planning the system. He is the modern system's first and only director...
Aerospace Studies 50. Blimp Warfare. Hours to be arranged. A broadly based reconsideration of the role of the blimp in modern warfare, with a prospectus for the future...
Guthke, now a professor at the University of Toronto, will become professor of German Literature, effective July 1. His publications include Modern Tragi-Comedy and Wege zur Literatur, a collection of essays...