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Another thinker I would wager to be a Tawney man is the Harvard Professor, John Kenneth Galbraith.
J.K.Galbraith is one of the few economists who regards power as an integral part of economic theory and so in The Anatomy of Power he defined three types of power: condign power, compensatory power and conditioned power...it is a useful start to a real economics...where people matter and money enables...
The Scotch Canadian Galbraith kicked off his broad-ranging career with a trilogy of books that were rooted in Tawney's observation that
'the agreeable optimism that the less attractive characteristics of our industrial civilization, its combination of luxury and squalor, its class divisions and class warfare, are accidental maladjustments which are not rooted in the centre of its being, but are excrescences which economic progress itself may in time be expected to correct, will not survive an examination of the operation of the institution of private property in land and capital in the industrialized communities.'
'The Affluent Society'
'The New Industrial State'
'Economics & The Public Purpose'.
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