Rethinking the Future: The Correspondence Between Geoffrey Vickers and Adolph LoweJeanne Vickers Transaction Publishers, 1. sij 1991. - Broj stranica: 239 Rethinking the Future is the story of a relationship between two highly origi-nal thinkers who achieved great dis-tinction in their chosen fields and in their respective countries. After a dis-tinguished career in law, civil admin-istration, and industrial management, Geoffrey Vickers made an exceptional contribution to academic debate with regard to ethics, epistemology, and "governance"--the art of maintaining stable relationships over time. One of the most eminent scholars of political economics in the Western world and a gifted teacher, Adolph Lowe inspired generations of economics students at the New School for Social Research in New York, and has published a number of seminal books on the subject. The friendship between the two was very close, taking shape through a corre-spondence and occasional visits to one side or the other of the Atlantic. It lasted more than forty years. This volume reflects the extraordi-narily wide-ranging nature of the cor-respondence between Lowe and Vick-ers, and the continuing discussion of what it means to be human at the end of the twentieth century. The letters provide a personal commentary on some of the major events of this century, in-cluding many that were highly contro-versial. The book shows how these two scholars contributed to the develop-ment of the central ideas of the century. They are particularly relevant to pres-ent concerns, dealing as they do with economics and management, social and political sciences, governance and pub-lic policy. Discussing major national and in-ternational problems from very differ-ent--and sometimes opposite--standpoints, the two men are able, through this extraordinary correspondence, to formulate ideas of great wisdom and foresight with regard to the world that awaits us as the twenty-first century appears on the horizon. Economists, political scientists, and sociologists will find this correspondence stimulating and enlightening. |
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Maximization | 38 |
The Sixties | 41 |
Disabilities | 45 |
Freedom in a Rocking Boat | 47 |
Emancipation | 50 |
Deficit financing | 54 |
The tacit consensus | 131 |
Systems thinking | 132 |
The meaning of standards | 136 |
Exercising judgment | 138 |
Dichotomies | 141 |
The teaching capacity of disasters | 143 |
Institutional reforms and mass psychology | 148 |
Productivity and employment | 152 |
The Early Seventies | 61 |
Lecturing at Berkeley | 63 |
Politicoeconomic ecology | 64 |
On coercion and conflict | 68 |
Moving towards a stable state | 71 |
Closing the gamut | 74 |
Statesmen and writers | 75 |
Communication | 76 |
The Berkeley lectures | 77 |
On inflation | 78 |
The Common Market | 79 |
More on inflation | 82 |
Ecce Homo | 85 |
Consulting in Washington and at MIT | 86 |
Money and credit | 88 |
The Late Seventies | 93 |
Problem setting and solving | 96 |
Publishing practices and a rejection | 98 |
Updating On Economic Knowledge | 101 |
Money wealth and instrumental analysis | 103 |
Growth and zerogrowth | 106 |
Inflation and Distribution | 112 |
Judaism and Job | 119 |
Loyalties | 122 |
Commitment and constraint | 129 |
The thrust of technological change | 157 |
The preservation of civilization | 159 |
Political structures | 162 |
The future of morality | 164 |
The VeblenCommons Award | 166 |
Spontaneous conformity | 170 |
The meaning of social democracy | 172 |
Cultural consensus | 175 |
The Eighties | 179 |
Third World Debt and the Overdeveloped Society | 182 |
Unemployment populations and nationhood | 184 |
Conservation and the true costs of production | 188 |
A special birthday gift | 191 |
Responsibility and the education of leaders | 194 |
Printing money | 197 |
Indexing creditand debt | 201 |
The four instabilities | 202 |
The limits of economic policy | 205 |
Inflation and OPEC | 208 |
Monetary and financial policies | 214 |
Looking back | 219 |
Epilogue | 225 |
Bibliography | 227 |
Index | 229 |