The Managerial Revolution

<p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>'Burnham has real intellectual courage and writes about real issues.' - George Orwell</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Burnham's claim was that capitalism was dead but that it was being replaced not by socialism but a new economic system he called managerialism; rule by managers.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Written in 1941 this is the book that theorised how the world was moving into the hands of the 'managers'. Burnham explains how Capitalism had virtually lost its control and would be displaced not by labour nor by socialism but by the rule of administartors in business and in government.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This revolution he posited is as broad as the world and as comprehensive as human society asking Why is 'totalitarianism' not the issue? Can civilization be destroyed? And Why is the New Deal something bigger than Roosevelt can handle?</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In a volume extraordinary for its dispassionate handling of those and other fundamental questions James Burnham explores fully the implications of the managerial revolution. </strong></p>