The focus of this book is the emerging economic confrontation between
European and U.S. capitalism at the end of the "golden age" of
capitalism in the late 1960s. Ernest Mandel here paints a remarkably
clear, comprehensive, and detailed portrait of trends at that critical
period. Mandel moves with ease from the most general international
problems to the specifics of corporate activity, and few developments in
the business and economic worlds seem to have escaped his attention.