As the twenty-first century looms ahead, it is becoming increasingly clear that economic life will be different on the other side of the millennium. Attempts at communism have failed, new corporate structures are constantly emerging, government is being reinvented, entirely new industries are being born, and the world is gelling into a global market governed by the imperatives of knowledge. In ‘Twenty-First Century Economics’, editors Halal and Taylor have assembled a group of leading economists and scholars to provide authoritative analyses of the powerful forces now shaping economic systems, and to estimate where these trends are headed. The essays compare the Information Revolution of today to the Industrial Revolution of yesterday, and show how for the first time in history, economic affairs are being organized around the pursuit of knowledge. Exploring the causes and the effects of this new technological foundation for economic systems, the chapters reveal the invigorating benefits and unprecedented challenges that are sure to be a part of what some call the 'central nervous system' of knowledge and information. ‘Twenty-First Century Economics’ helps readers to grasp the revolutionary nature of the current economic transition and to sense the power being unleashed by today's and tomorrow's vast technological advances.
Table of contents:
Foreword by ‘Robert Solow’
Introduction: The Transition to a Global Information Economy; ‘W.E.Halal & K.B.Taylor’
Economics in the Information Age; ‘S.A.Thore ‘
Regionalization of the Global Economy; ‘A.J.Scott’
Business and the Environment: The Economics of Clean Business; ‘P.Ekins ‘
Fostering Community in a Turbulent World; ‘A.Etzioni’
Towards a Human Economy; ‘M.Lutz’
Network Organizations; ‘R.Miles’
The Internal Market Economy; ‘R.Ackoff’
The Universal Stock Ownership Plan; ‘W.Morehouse, S.Speiser, & K.B.Taylor’
The New Management; ‘W.Halal ‘
New Traditions in Business; ‘M.Ray’
A 21st Century Economic Paradigm: Lessons from Myrdal, Schumpeter and Hayek; ‘J.Angresano’
Roads to Ruin: Neo-Classical Hegemony in Eastern Europe; ‘R.McIntyre ‘Restructuring the Japanese Economic System; ’K.Taira’
Scandinavian Negotiated Economies Revisited; ‘V.Pestoff’
World Governance; ‘S.Bruyn’
Economics on the Other Side of the Millennium: A Synthesis of Progressive Economic Thought; ‘W.E.Halal & K.B.Taylor’
Index
Table of contents:
Foreword by ‘Robert Solow’
Introduction: The Transition to a Global Information Economy; ‘W.E.Halal & K.B.Taylor’
Economics in the Information Age; ‘S.A.Thore ‘
Regionalization of the Global Economy; ‘A.J.Scott’
Business and the Environment: The Economics of Clean Business; ‘P.Ekins ‘
Fostering Community in a Turbulent World; ‘A.Etzioni’
Towards a Human Economy; ‘M.Lutz’
Network Organizations; ‘R.Miles’
The Internal Market Economy; ‘R.Ackoff’
The Universal Stock Ownership Plan; ‘W.Morehouse, S.Speiser, & K.B.Taylor’
The New Management; ‘W.Halal ‘
New Traditions in Business; ‘M.Ray’
A 21st Century Economic Paradigm: Lessons from Myrdal, Schumpeter and Hayek; ‘J.Angresano’
Roads to Ruin: Neo-Classical Hegemony in Eastern Europe; ‘R.McIntyre ‘Restructuring the Japanese Economic System; ’K.Taira’
Scandinavian Negotiated Economies Revisited; ‘V.Pestoff’
World Governance; ‘S.Bruyn’
Economics on the Other Side of the Millennium: A Synthesis of Progressive Economic Thought; ‘W.E.Halal & K.B.Taylor’
Index