Economics and Utopia: Why the Learning Economy is Not the End of History

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Psychology 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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