The Locust and the Bee (eBook)

Predators and Creators in Capitalism's Future - Updated Edition

Geoff Mulgan (Autor)

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2015 | Updated Edition
360 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6619-9 (ISBN)

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Geoff Mulgan is the author of Good and Bad Power (Penguin) and The Art of Public Strategy, among other books. A globally recognized pioneer in the field of social innovation, he was the founder of the think tank Demos and served as director of the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit and director of policy under Tony Blair. He is currently chief executive of the UK's National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts.

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How to harness capitalism's dynamism to create an economy that promotes well-being and rewards creationThe 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 also presents a historic opportunity to choose a radically different future for capitalism, one that maximizes its creative power and minimizes its destructive force.In an engaging and wide-ranging argument, Mulgan digs into the history of capitalism across the world to show its animating ideas, its utopias and dystopias, as well as its contradictions and possibilities. Drawing on a subtle framework for understanding systemic change, he shows how new political settlements reshaped capitalism in the past and are likely to do so in the future. By reconnecting value to real-life ideas of growth, he argues, efficiency and entrepreneurship can be harnessed to promote better lives and relationships rather than just a growth in the quantity of material consumption. Healthcare, education, and green industries are already becoming dominant sectors in the wealthier economies, and the fields of social innovation, enterprise, and investment are rapidly moving into the mainstream-all indicators of how capital could be made more of a servant and less a master.This is a book for anyone who wonders where capitalism might be heading next-and who wants to help make sure that its future avoids the mistakes of the past. This edition of The Locust and the Bee includes a new afterword in which the author lays out some of the key challenges facing capitalism in the twenty-first century.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.3.2015
• Nachwort: Geoff Mulgan
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Accounting • Advertising • At Best • Bank • Bankruptcy • Big Business • bureaucrat • Business Model • Capitalism • capitalist power • Capital Market • Carlota Perez • Central Bank • Central business districts • Charles Tilly • circular economy • Civil Society • climate change • collective intelligence • Commodity • communism • Community • Competition • consumer • Consumption (Economics) • Cooperation • Creativity • Creators • Criticism of capitalism • cumulative growth • Currency • Customer • debt • developed country • dystopias • economic arrangements • Economic change • Economic crisis • Economic Growth • Economics • Economic system • economist • economy • Efficiency • Emerging Technologies • Employment • Enterprise • Entrepreneurs • Entrepreneurship • Equilibrium • Europe • exchangeable value • fair rewards • feudal lords • Finance • Financial Crisis • Financial Services • firms • Food • Forecasting • Funding • generative ideas • genomics • global banks • Goldman Sachs • goods • green industries • Healthcare • homoeostasis • Household • household sector • Human Capital • Ideology • Incentive • income • industrialisation • Industry • Information • Infrastructure • Innovation system • Institution • Intellectual Property • Interest Rate • Investment • Investor • investors • Ivan Efremov • Joseph Schumpeter • Labor • Land • Liberalism • Linearity • lived value • Living Conditions • Low carbon technologies • Macroeconomics • Maintenance • makers • Manuel Castells • Manufacturing • Market • Market Economy • Marketing • Markets • Marxism • Mass production • material things • Measurement • Modernity • MONEY • Morality • nanotechnology • New Economy • Nonprofit Organization • old economies • Open Innovation • oppressive states • organization • Ownership • Political Economy • Political Party • political programs • Politician • Politics • Power • pre-capitalist economies • predation • predators • Production • Productivity • Progress • providers • Public sector • Quantity • radical alternatives • Radicals • radical transcendence • Recession • Reformers • Requirement • Research and Development • Retail • Richard Sennett • Risk • Roberto Mangabeira Unger • saving • scientific activity • social bonds • Social Innovation • social innovators • Social Interaction • Social Movement • Social Systems • Societies • startup company • Stock Market • Subsidy • Tax • Technologies • Technology • Thomas More • Unemployment • United States • Ursula LeGuin • Utopia • utopias • Value (economics) • Venture Capital • Wealth • wealthy economy • Welfare State • well-being • William Morris • workplace • World Economy • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6619-7 / 1400866197
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6619-9 / 9781400866199