Economics and Utopia: Why the Learning Economy is Not the End of HistoryPsychology Press, 1999 - Broj stranica: 337 For many the East European revolutions of 1989 and the disintegration of the USSR represented not only the overdue demise of Soviet-style communism, but also the obsolescence of all utopian ways of thinking. This text argues history has reached its end-state in the form of a victorious liberal-democratic capitalism and all attempts to imagine an alternative social order were now damned as both futile and quixotic. "Beyond Utopia?" rejects the belief that utopian thinking is a necessary condition for the development of alternative solutions to the problems of the present and thus for historical progress. This text is emphatically not an attempt to breathe new life into existing utopian models, whether state socialist or neo-liberal, which are seen as misunderstanding the nature of learning and knowledge in a modern economy. The author's utopianism is based on an examination of the potential for an alternative future based on the growth of knowledge-intensive production, one whose feasibility would derive from its ability to respond to the needs of rapidly-changing industrial economies. |
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Comparison of the epsilon zeta and other scenarios 9 | 9 |
SOCIALISM AND THE LIMITS TO INNOVATION | 15 |
The very late inception of socialist economic pluralism | 24 |
The socialist calculation debate | 33 |
A proposal for democratic planning | 42 |
Computers to the rescue? | 52 |
Can socialism learn? | 59 |
CONTRACT AND CAPITALISM | 157 |
KNOWLEDGE AND EMPLOYMENT | 179 |
THE END OF CAPITALISM? | 205 |
The omega scenario 10 2 | 213 |
The learning frontier 10 1 | 221 |
THE LEARNING FRONTIER | 228 |
SOME NORMATIVE AND POLICY ISSUES | 240 |
Notes | 263 |
Market individualism and the iron cage of liberty | 69 |
The alleged ubiquity of the market | 85 |
Evaluating different types of market institution | 93 |
THE UNIVERSALITY OF MAINSTREAM ECONOMICS | 101 |
KARL MARX AND THE TRIUMPH OF CAPITALISM | 117 |
INSTITUTIONALISM AND VARIETIES OF CAPITALISM | 133 |
Varieties of analysis and varieties of capitalism 6 1 | 149 |
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Ostala izdanja - Prikaži sve
Economics and Utopia: Why the Learning Economy is Not the End of History Geoffrey M Hodgson Ograničeni pregled - 2002 |
Economics and Utopia: Why the Learning Economy is Not the End of History Geoffrey M Hodgson Ograničeni pregled - 2002 |
Economics and Utopia: Why the Learning Economy is Not the End of History Geoffrey Martin Hodgson Ograničeni pregled - 1999 |
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