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Part 1 The rise of "big business" - industrial society between economicconcentration and finance capitalism: the role of business in theUnited States - a historical survey, A.D. Chandler Jr.; the industrialsystem of the new order - business vs. manufacturing, T. Veblen; theconcentration of economic power, A.A. Berle and G.C. Means; industrialsociety - on the convergence of capitalism and socialism, R. Aron; Part2 Laissez faire in decline - from the great depression into the postwar era: the end of laissez faire, J.M. Keynes; an explanation of the1929 depression, C.P. Kindleberger; our obsolete market mentality, K.Polanyi; capitalism in the post-war world, J.A. Schumpeter. Part 3 Thegolden age of capitalism - large corporations and the regulatory state:the technostructure and the new industrial state, J.K. Galbraith; themilitary industrial complex and the new industrial state, W. Adams;planning, corporatism, and the capitalist state, B. Jordan; somecontradictions of the modern welfare state, C. Offe. Part 4restructuring business, labor and government - de-industrialization,entrepreneurialism, and the decline of labour: closed plants, lost jobs- consequences of de-industrialization, B. Bluestone, B. Harrison;toward a policy agenda for competitiveness, S.S. Cohen, J. Zysman;restructuring employment, J. Kolko; the social construction ofefficiency, N. Fligstein. Part 4 Multinational corporations prepare theglobal economy - the integration of markets and the erosion of thenation 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, andJapan in the post-Cold War world, B. Stallings, W. Streeck.