Three Lectures on Post-Industrial Society (MIT Press)
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (903 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262033836 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 120 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Employees are left exposed while shareholders act to protect themselves. In these wide-ranging reflections, Cohen describes the transformations that signaled the break between the industrial and the post-industrial eras. Finally, Cohen examines the fate of the European social model--with its traditional compromise between social justice and economic productivity--in a post-industrial world.. Never has the awareness that we all live in the same world been so strong---and never have the social conditions of existence been so unequal. The different levels of large industrial enterprises have been systematically disassembled: tasks considered nonessential
He is a frequent contributor to Le Monde and the author of The Wealth of the World and the Poverty of Nations (1998), Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age (2002), and Globalization and Its Enemies (2006), all published by the MIT Press. Daniel Cohen is Professor of Economics at the École Normale Supérieure and the Université de Paris-I and a member of the Council of Economic Analysis of the French Prime Minister
Well-informed perspective on globalization Malvin "Three Lectures on Post-Industrial Society" by Daniel Cohen offers a succinct socio-economic analysis of the post-industrial world. Mr. Cohen is a Professor of Economics who serves on the Council of Exonomic Analysis of the French Prime Minister, providing a well-informed internationalist perspective on the subject of globalization. Written with remarkable clarity and intelligence, Mr. Cohen provides insight i
. The engineers gain from this arrangement if the workers are 'nice.'" He has impressive knowledge of how each country affects many others, demonstrated in his refusal to speak in generalizations or platitudes: "To speak of a single European social model covering the United Kingdom, Sweden, Italy, and France makes virtually no sense." It's that careful detail in considering each separate economy that makes this book a small but substantial gem, especially in the standout piece "The New World Order," whi