The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society
by Peter F. Drucker
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"The closing decades of the twentieth century have been characterized as a period of disruption and discontinuity in which the structure and meaning of economy, polity, and society have been radically altered. In this volume Peter Drucker focuses with great clarity and perception on the forces of change that are transforming the economic landscape and creating tomorrow's society. Drucker discerns four major areas of discontinuity underlying contemporary social and cultural reality. These show more are: (1) the explosion of new technologies resulting in major new industries; (2) the change from an international to a world economy--an economy that presently lacks policy, theory, and institutions; (3) a new sociopolitical reality of pluralistic institutions that poses drastic political, philosophical, and spritual challenges; and (4) the new universe of knowledge based on mass education and its implications in work, leisure, and leadership. Peter Drucker brings to this work an intimate knowledge and objective view of the particular and general. The Age of Discontinuity is a fascinating and important blueprint for shaping a future already very much with us."--Provided by publisher. show lessTags
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Should have read it when it came out. Forecast the personal computer and the information economy.
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Peter F. Drucker has been Clarke Professor of Social Science and Management at Claremont Graduate School in California since 1971.
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- Economics, Nonfiction, Sociology, Business, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government, History
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- 309.1 — Social sciences Social sciences, sociology & anthropology [Formerly: History of Social Science] No longer used [Formerly: Historical and geographical treatment]
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- HC59 .D69 — Social sciences Economic history and conditions Economic history and conditions
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