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See, for example, John Kenneth Galbraith, Economics and the Public Purpose (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1973).

On this point it may be instructive to recall that it was President Dwight Eisenhower, not Jerry Rubin, who first warned this nation of the danger of the "military-industrial complex." In the public drama, elites are quick to associate the idea with the radical left while social activists have been slow to seek credibility for their claims by pointing to the original source.

Alvin W. Gouldner, The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology (New York: Basic Books, 1970), pp. 4-5. Used by permission.