The Anatomy of Power

406 Pages·1983·0.81 MB·English

by  John Kenneth Galbraith

title: The Anatomy of Power
author: Galbraith, John Kenneth.
publisher: Houghton-Mifflin Trade and Reference
isbn10 | asin:
print isbn13: 9780395344002
ebook isbn13: 9780585104478
language: English
subject Power (Social sciences)
publication date: 1983
lcc: HM271.G27 1983eb
ddc: 303.3
subject: Power (Social sciences)
The Anatomy of Power
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BOOKS BY
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
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Economics and the Art of Controversy
The Great Crash, 1929
The Affluent Society
The Liberal Hour
Economic Development
The Scotch
The New Industrial State
The Triumph
Indian Painting
(with Mohinder Singh Randhawa)
Ambassador's Journal
Economics, Peace and Laughter
A China Passage
Economics and the Public Purpose
Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went
The Age of Uncertainty
Almost Everyone's Guide to Economics
The Nature of Mass Poverty
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A Life in Our Times
The Voice of the Poor
The Anatomy of Power
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The Anatomy of Power
John Kenneth Galbraith
Houghton Mifflin Company Boston
1983
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Copyright © 1983 by John Kenneth Galbraith
All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in
any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying
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may be expressly permitted by the 1976 Copyright Act or in writing from the
publisher. Requests for permission should be addressed in writing to
Houghton Mifflin Company, 2 Park Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02108.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Galbraith, John Kenneth, date
The anatomy of power.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Power (Social sciences) I. Title.
HM271.G27 1983 303.3 83-12622
ISBN 0-395-34400-X
Printed in the United States of America
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For Marcia Legru and Austin Olney
to whose conditioned and compensatory power
I have been happily subservient
for these many years
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A Word of Thanks
As usual, I am in the debt of loyal and much-loved friends. One is Edith
Tucker, a diversely talented community leader in Wellesley, Massachusetts,
who combined an infinity of other duties with the typing and retyping of my
drafts and highly pertinent criticism of whatever seemed incomplete or
obscure. Ann Livingston shared in the typing, helped on the research and
checking, and most adeptly managed and suppressed the annoyances of life so
that I could keep my thoughts fairly continuously on the book. Most of all, I
am indebted to Andrea Williams, my partner in this effort as in so many
before, who, in a just world, would be listed, if not as the fellow author, then
as the most talented of editors.
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Contents
Foreword xiii
I The Anatomy of Power: An Overview 1
II Condign and Compensatory Power 14
III Conditioned Power 24
IV The Sources of Power: Personality 38
V The Sources of Power: Property 47
VI The Sources of Power: Organization I 54
VII The Sources of Power: Organization II 65
VIII The Dialectic of Power I 72
IX The Dialectic of Power II: The Regulation of Power 81
X The Larger Dynamics of Power: The Precapitalist World 89
XI The Emergence of Capitalism 98
XII The Power of High Capitalism 110
XIII The Response 121
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XIV The Age of Organization 131
XV Organization and the State 144
XVI The Military Power 160
XVII The Power of Religion and the Press 171
XVIII A Final Word: The Concentration and Diffusion of 181
Power
Index 191