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The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World is a book written by James Burnham in 1941. It discusses the rise of managers and technocrats in modern industrial societies , arguing that they would replace the traditional capitalist class as the rulers of the economic system, through mechanisms such as economic planning .
James Burnham (November 22, 1905 – July 28, 1987) was an American philosopher and political theorist. He chaired the New York University Department of Philosophy; his first book was An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis (1931).
The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business is a book by American business historian Alfred D. Chandler Jr., published by the Belknap Press imprint of Harvard University Press in 1977.
Second Thoughts on James Burnham" ("James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution", when published as a pamphlet [1]) is an essay, first published in May 1946 in Polemic, by the English author George Orwell. The essay discusses works written by James Burnham, an American political theorist.
The "managerial state" is a concept used in critiquing modern procedural democracy. [ ambiguous ] The concept is used largely, though not exclusively, in paleolibertarian , paleoconservative , and anarcho-capitalist critiques of late modern state power in Western democracies.
By forging a broad and nonpartisan agreement on the facts, figures and trends related to mobility, the Economic Mobility Project seeks to focus public attention on this critically important issue and generate an active policy debate about how best to ensure that the
Managerialism is the idea that professional managers should run organizations in line with organizational routines which produce controllable and measurable results. [1] [2] It applies the procedures of running a for-profit business to any organization, with an emphasis on control, [3] accountability, [4] measurement, strategic planning and the micromanagement of staff.
Sixty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s social justice movement was facing overwhelming obstacles, including a White backlash to Black progress. But King did something that eludes many of ...