Mulgan The Locust and the Bee

Predators and Creators in Capitalism's Future - Updated Edition
Updated Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6619-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten

How to harness capitalism's dynamism to create an economy that promotes well-being and rewards creation

The recent economic crisis was a dramatic reminder that capitalism can both produce and destroy. It's a system that by its very nature encourages predators and creators, locusts and bees. But, as Geoff Mulgan argues in this compelling, imaginative, and important book, the economic crisis also presents a historic opportunity to choose a radically different future for capitalism, one that maximizes its creative power and minimizes its destructive force.

In an engaging and wide-ranging argument, Mulgan digs into the history of capitalism across the world to show its animating ideas, its utopias and dystopias, as well as its contradictions and possibilities. Drawing on a subtle framework for understanding systemic change, he shows how new political settlements reshaped capitalism in the past and are likely to do so in the future. By reconnecting value to real-life ideas of growth, he argues, efficiency and entrepreneurship can be harnessed to promote better lives and relationships rather than just a growth in the quantity of material consumption. Healthcare, education, and green industries are already becoming dominant sectors in the wealthier economies, and the fields of social innovation, enterprise, and investment are rapidly moving into the mainstream—all indicators of how capital could be made more of a servant and less a master.

This is a book for anyone who wonders where capitalism might be heading next—and who wants to help make sure that its future avoids the mistakes of the past. This edition of The Locust and the Bee includes a new afterword in which the author lays out some of the key challenges facing capitalism in the twenty-first century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mulgan, Geoff

Weitere Mitwirkende

Mulgan, Geoff

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1- After Capitalism 1

Chapter 2 - Barren and Pregnant Crises 17

Chapter 3 - The Essence of Capitalism 28

Chapter 4 - To Take or to Make 52

- The Roles of Creators and Predators

Chapter 5 - Capitalism's Critics 79

Chapter 6 - Anticapitalist Utopias and Neotopias 104

Chapter 7 - The Nature of Change 116

- How One System Becomes Another

Chapter 8- Creative and Predatory Technology 145

Chapter 9 - The Rise of Economies Based on Relationships and Maintenance 172

Chapter 10 - Capitalism's Generative Ideas 198

Chapter 11 - New Accommodations 230

- or How Societies (Occasionally) Jump

Chapter 12 - Outgrowing Capitalism 280

Afterword to the paperback edition 289

Notes 297

Acknowledgments 329

Index 331

Über Autor(innen)

Geoff Mulgan is the author of Good and Bad Power (Penguin) and The Art of Public Strategy, among other books. A globally recognized pioneer in the field of social innovation, he was the founder of the think tank Demos and served as director of the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit and director of policy under Tony Blair. He is currently chief executive of the UK's National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts.