TY - BOOK AU - Shonfield,Andrew ED - Royal Institute of International Affairs TI - Modern capitalism: the changing balance of public and private power AV - HC 59 .S494 1965 U1 - 330.904 PY - 1965/// CY - London, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Economic history KW - 1945-1971 KW - Economic policy KW - Comparative economics KW - Capitalism N1 - 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 N2 - "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 UR - https://archive.org/details/moderncapitalism00shon ER -