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The Reith Lectures: J K Galbraith - The New Industrial State: The Bearing on Socialist Development

J K Galbraith - The New Industrial State

11/12/1966

The Bearing on Socialist Development

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Professor J K Galbraith considers how socialism affects state planning. 

Professor J K Galbraith considers how socialism affects state planning in his fifth Reith lecture entitled 'The Bearing on Socialist Development'.

Professor John Kenneth Galbraith is the Paul M Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University and is the author of 'The Affluent Society'. In his Reith series entitled 'The New Industrial State', he explores the economics of production.

In this lecture entitled 'The Bearing on Socialist Development', Professor Galbraith considers the way 'atate planning' manifests itself in socialist and non-socialist societies, and in developed and less developed economies. Galbraith asks how societies can control productive enterprises. Can capitalism and democratic socialism work together? 

The Reith Lectures: J K Galbraith - The New Industrial State

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J K Galbraith explores the economics of production and the effect on state development.

The Canadian-American economist Professor J K Galbraith explores the economics of production and the effect on the development of the state.

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