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The locust and the bee : predators and creators in capitalism's future /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mulgan, Geoff (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2015.
Edition:Second printing, and first paperback printing with a new afterword by the author.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • After capitalism
  • Barren and pregnant crises
  • The essence of capitalism
  • To take or to make: the roles of creators and predators
  • Capitalism's critics
  • Anticapitalist utopias and neotopias
  • The nature of change: how one system becomes another
  • Creative and predatory technology
  • The rise of economies based on relationships and maintenance
  • Capitalism's generative ideas
  • New accommodations, or how societies (occasionally) jump
  • Outgrowing capitalism
  • Afterword to the paperback edition.