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

J K Galbraith - The New Industrial State

20/11/1966

The Modern Corporation

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Professor J K Galbraith explores planning structures of large corporations.

Professor J K Galbraith explores planning structures of large businesses in his second lecture entitled 'The Modern Corporation'.

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 Modern Corporation', Professor Galbraith explores the large corporation as a planning instrument. Building on his first lecture, he discusses the way businesses plan their adaption to modern technology and their products, which leads to an organisation of resources. He argues that success depends on the size of large corporations and their scheduling strategy. 

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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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