The Invisible Hand of Planning: Capitalism, Social Science, and the State in the 1920s (Princeton Legacy Library, 35)

Guy Alchon examines the mutually supportive efforts of social scientists, business managers, and government officials to create America's first peacetime system of macroeconomic management. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. Guy Alchon examines the mutually supportive efforts of social scientists, business managers, and government officials to create America's first peacetime system of macroeconomic management. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905 "This is a study of a neglected chapter in the intertwined histories of business and government planning, the social sciences, and modern managerial society. It is, in particular, a study of mutually supportive collaboration between social science and managerial institutions in the attempt to create America's first peace-time system of macroeconomic management, a collaboration that appeared to be moving toward success in the 1920s but was incapable of preventing the Great Depression"--Introduction