In 1976, when Daniel Bell first published The Coming of Post-Industrial Society, he predicted a vastly different world -- one that would rely upon an economics of information, as opposed to the economics of goods that had existed up to then. Bell argued that the new society would not displace the old one but rather overlay it in profound ways, much as industrialization continues to coexist with the agrarian sectors of our society.
In Bell's prescient vision, the post-industrial society would include the birth and growth of a knowledge class, a change from goods to services, and changes in the role of women. All of these would be based upon an increasing dependence on science as a means of innovation; as a means of technical and social change.
The Coming of Post-Industrial Society remains an important book for a whole new generation of politicians, economists, intellectuals, and students.
Table of Contents
The Axial Age of Technology Foreword: 1999
Foreword: 1976
Preface
Introduction
p. 1
From Industrial to Post-Industrial Society: Theories of Social Development
p. 47
From Goods to Services: The Changing Shape of the Economy
p. 121
The Dimensions of Knowledge and Technology: The New Class Structure of Post-Industrial Society
p. 165
The Subordination of the Corporation: The Tension between the Economizing and Sociologizing Modes
p. 267
Social Choice and Social Planning: The Adequacy of Our Concepts and Tools
p. 299
"Who Will Rule?" Politicians and Technocrats in the Post-Industrial Society
p. 339
Coda: An Agenda for the Future
p. 369
How Social Systems Change
p. 371
The Future of Science
p. 378
Meritocracy and Equality
p. 408
The End of Scarcity?
p. 456
Culture and Consciousness
p. 475
Name Index
p. 491
Subject Index
p. 499
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