Cover -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The UN Trade and Development Debates of the 1940s -- 2 The UN Recruits Economists -- 3 Michal Kalecki, the World Economic Report, and McCarthyism -- 4 From Full Employment to Economic...

Max Weber believed that bureaucracy could be understood by analysing its ideal-typical characteristics, and that these characteristics would become more pervasive as the modern age advanced. Weber’s horizontal account of bureaucracy can be criticised on various grounds, including its...