A diverse, complex, and stable, yet volatile system, capitalism has undergone fundamental transformations over the past century. Entrepreneurial capitalism has become increasingly managerial and corporate in nature. The influence of laissez-faire policies waned for decades, only to experience a recent renaissance. No longer dominated by industrial production, capitalist economies are now geared toward supplying services, and toward integrating the working class into capitalist society. Individual companies have given rise to complex relationships between state, economy, and multinational corporations.

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HARRY F. DAHMS is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at University of Tennessee, where he teaches courses in social theory and economic sociology. He received his Ph.D. in sociology at the New School for Social Research in New York in 1993 and his M.A. in sociology, economics and statistics at the University of Konstanz, Germany, in 1986. He has written numerous articles on capitalism and social theory. He is currently completing a book on Schumpeter's theory of entrepreneurship.

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Series Preface; R.Jackall & A.J.Vidich Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; H.F.Dahms PART I: THE RISE OF 'BIG BUSINESS': INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY BETWEEN ECONOMIC CONCENTRATION AND FINANCE CAPITALISM The Role of Business in the United States: A Historical Survey; A.D.Chandler, Jr. The Industrial System of the New Order: Business vs. Manufacturing; T.Veblen The Concentration of Economic Power; A.A.Berle & G.C.Means Industrial Society: On the Convergence of Capitalism and Socialism; R.Aron PART II: LAISSEZ-FAIRE IN DECLINE: FROM THE GREAT DEPRESSION INTO THE POST-WAR ERA The End of Laissez-Faire; J.M.Keynes An Explanation of the 1929 Depression; C.P.Kindleberger Our Obsolete Market Mentality ; K.Polanyi Capitalism in the Postwar World; J.A.Schumpeter PART III: THE GOLDEN AGE OF CAPITALISM: LARGE CORPORATIONS AND THE REGULATORY STATE The Technostructure and the New Industrial State; J.K.Galbraith The Military-Industrial Complex and the New Industrial State; W.Adams Planning, Corporatism, and the Capitalist State; B.Jordan Some Contradictions of the Modern Welfare State; C.Offe PART IV: RESTRUCTURING BUSINESS, LABOR AND GOVERNMENT: DEINDUSTRIALIZATION, ENTREPRENEURIALISM, AND THE DECLINE OF LABOUR Closed Plants, Lost Jobs: Consequences of Deindustrialization; B.Bluestone & B.Harrison Toward a Policy Agenda for Competitiveness; S.S.Cohen & J.Zysman Restructuring Employment; J.Kolko The Social Construction of Efficiency; N.Fligstein PART V: MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS PREPARE THE GLOBAL ECONOMY: THE INTEGRATION OF MARKETS AND THE EROSION OF THE NATION-STATE The International Monetary Order in Crisis; F.Block American Society Since the Golden Age of Capitalism; J.Bensman & A.J.Vidich The Multinational Corporations and International Production; R.Gilpin The New Global Economy: Problems and Prospects; G.K.Helleiner Capitalisms in Conflict?: The United States, Europe, and Japan in the Post-Cold War World; B.Stallings & W.Streeck Epilogue; H.F.Dahms Index