Economics and Utopia

Why the Learning Economy is Not the End of History
1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-415-07506-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 705 g

Reihe: Economics as Social Theory

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall we have been told that no alternative to Western capitalism is possible or desirable. This book challenges this view with two arguments. First, the above premise ignores the enormous variety within capitalism itself. Second, there are enormous forces of transformation within contemporary capitalisms, associated with moves towards a more knowledge-intensive economy. These forces challenge the traditional bases of contract and employment, and could lead to a quite different socio-economic system. Without proposing a static blueprint, this book explores this possible scenario.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hodgson, Geoffrey M

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 INTRODUCTION Part I Visions and illusions 2 SOCIALISM AND THE LIMITS TO INNOVATION 3 THE ABSOLUTISM OF MARKET INDIVIDUALISM Part II The blindness of existing theory 4 THE UNIVERSALITY OF MAINSTREAM ECONOMICS 5 KARL MARX AND THE TRIUMPH OF CAPITALISM 6 INSTITUTIONALISM AND VARIETIES OF CAPITALISM Part III Back to the future 7 CONTRACT AND CAPITALISM 8 KNOWLEDGE AND EMPLOYMENT 9THE END OF CAPITALISM? 10 THE LEARNING FRONTIER 11 SOME NORMATIVE AND POLICY ISSUES

Über Autor(innen)

Geoffrey M Hodgson