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The New Industrial State
I started this book nearly ten years ago and, in a sense, it started itself. What was to become The Affluent Society was nearing completion when another and larger world began obtruding itself on my thoughts. This was a world of great corporations a world in which people increasingly served the convenience of these organizations which were meant to serve them. It was a world in which motives seemed not to fit the standard textbook mold. Nor did the relationship be- tween business and state. Nor did markets. So far from being the controlling power in the economy, markets were more and more accommodated to the needs and convenience of business organizations. Numerous writers had dealt with parts of this reality but without assuming larger change. I became persuaded, reluctantly, that these parts belonged, in- deed, to a much greater and very closely articulated process of change.
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