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“conventional wisdom.” By taking an all-at-once
view of our economic world Galbraith has so
shocked the one-at-a-time people that the
American Journal of Economics has reviewed the
book on the assumption that it is a hoax. In the
same way Parkinson’s Law , in taking an all-at-
once view of the operation of the written forms in
bureaucratic organization today, has appeared as
a multi-levelled analysis of a complex dynamic.
Scholarly decorum would seem to be merely
the accidental result of the static procedure of
taking one-thing-at-a-time. Such procedure in
media analysis in as incapable of getting at the