Download or read book The Economy As a System of Power written by Marc Reed Tool and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles in this volume address the fact and use of economic power in the American economy. The institutional economists' perspective exhibited here reflects a century-long focus on and concern with economic power begun by Thorstein Veblen. This volume presents a new generation of institutionalist scholars who add to that tradition a fresh and penetrating analysis of contemporary power centers and assessments of their use of power.