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Toward a Keynesian Theory of Social Processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Amitai Etzioni
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Columbia University
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Increasingly, the present society is coming to be viewed not as a condition but as an alternative, as one possible arrangement of a much larger set. The social sciences help provide an understanding of the factors and mechanisms that allow us to review such a society, propose alternative plans, and transform it in line with these new designs.

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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1969

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1 Efforts in this direction are now being made. For a preliminary report of attempts to develop social indicators and social analysis related to them, see Toward A Social Report (Washington, 1969)Google Scholar, and Gross, B., ed., Social Goals and Indicators for the American Society (Boston 1969)Google Scholar.

2 For a recent study of decision-making over lunch at the highest level, see Cooper, Chester, The National Security Processes (New York 1969)Google Scholar.

3 Bundy, McGeorge, The Strength of Government (Cambridge, Mass. 1969)Google Scholar.

4 Drucker, Peter, The Age of Discontinuity (New York 1969)Google Scholar.