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The Castle or the Tipi: Rationalization or Irrationality in the American Economy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Extract

During a 1957 Notre Dame conference entitled “What America Stands For,” Karl De Schweinitz, Jr., examined the “contemporary problems of the American economy.” His major themes should be familiar: the effect of concentration of power and production on the functioning of the economy; the instability which the economy exhibits from year to year; and the continuing tension in the economy between individual preferences and economic imperatives.

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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1972

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