Economics and the public purpose / John Kenneth Galbraith.

Foreword, ix -- One. The Forest, 3 -- I. The Uses of an economic system-and of economics, 3 -- II. The neoclassical model, 12 -- III. The neoclassical model II: The State, 20 -- IV. Consumption and the concept of the household, 31 -- V. The general theory of advanced development, 41 -- Two. The Market system, 59 -- VI. Services and the market system, 59 -- VII. The market system and the arts, 66 -- cVIII. Self-exploitation and exploitation, 77 -- Three. The Planning System, 87 -- IX. The nature of collective intelligence, 87 -- X. How power is used: the protective purposes, 99 -- XI. The affirmative purposes, 108 -- XII. How prices are set, 119 -- XIII. Costs, contracts, coordination and the tendency of imperialism, 132 -- XIV. Persuasion and power, 145 -- XV. The revised economics of technical innovation, 158 -- XVI. The sources of public policy: a summary, 168 -- XVII. The transnational system, 178 -- Four. The two systems, 193 -- XVIII. Instability and the two systems, 193 -- XIX. Inflation and the two systems, 201 -- XX. The Economics of Anxiety: A Test, 214 -- Five. A General Theory of Reform, 233 -- XXI. The Negative Strategy of Economic Reform, 233 -- XXII. The emancipation of belief, 242 -- XXIII. The equitable household and beyond, 253 -- XXIV. The emancipation of the state, 262 -- XXV. Policy for the market system, 274 -- XXVI. Equality within the planning system, 287 -- XXVII. The socialist imperative, 297 -- XXVIII. The environment, 310 -- XXIX. The public state, 319 -- XXX. Fiscal policy, monetary policy and controls, 329 -- XXXI. Coordination, planning and the prospect, 345 -- Index, 355.