Modern capitalism : the changing balance of public and private power /
Andrew Shonfield ; issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
- London, New York : Oxford University Press, 1965.
- xvi, 456 pages ; 25 cm.
Includes index and five appendices.
Part 1 : Economic trends, I. The signs of change -- II. Intimations of stability: building and international trade -- III. Innovation speeded up -- IV. The argument in brief. Part 2 : The approach to planning, V. The etatist tradition: France -- VI. Britain in the postwar world: arm's length government -- VII. The development of planning in France -- VIII. Planning: Britain and France compared -- IX. Varieties of European experience -- X. Planning in general. Part 3 : Market ideologies, XI. Organized private enterprise: Germany -- XII. German economic policy: theory and practice -- XIII. The United States: The uncertain role of public power -- XIV. United States policy in the 1960s -- XV. The changing style of private enterprise. Part 4 : An essay on some political implications of active government -- An essay on some political implications of active government.
"The subject-matter which [the book] covers includes the evolution over a couple of decades since the war of the institutions of half a dozen countries... it seemed to me that Western capitalist society — that is broadly the countries located around the North Atlantic area — having a great deal of history in common, speaking languages closely related one another, and sharing certain traditional conventions about political behaviour, would make a meaningful field of study." -- From the introduction.