TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mulgan,Geoff
AU  - Mulgan,Geoff
TI  - The Locust and the Bee: Predators and Creators in Capitalism's Future - Updated Edition 
SN  - 9780691165745
AV  - HB501 
U1  - 330.122 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - History
KW  - Capitalism; History
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Economics
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Economics; Philosophy
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Europe
KW  - Ivan Efremov
KW  - Marxism
KW  - Thomas More
KW  - United States
KW  - Ursula LeGuin
KW  - William Morris
KW  - big business
KW  - capitalism
KW  - capitalist power
KW  - central business districts
KW  - community
KW  - competition
KW  - cooperation
KW  - creativity
KW  - creators
KW  - cumulative growth
KW  - dystopias
KW  - economic arrangements
KW  - economic change
KW  - economic crisis
KW  - economic system
KW  - economy
KW  - efficiency
KW  - enterprise
KW  - entrepreneurs
KW  - entrepreneurship
KW  - equilibrium
KW  - exchangeable value
KW  - fair rewards
KW  - feudal lords
KW  - finance
KW  - financial crisis
KW  - firms
KW  - food
KW  - generative ideas
KW  - genomics
KW  - global banks
KW  - goods
KW  - green industries
KW  - healthcare
KW  - homoeostasis
KW  - household sector
KW  - information
KW  - investment
KW  - investors
KW  - labor
KW  - land
KW  - liberalism
KW  - linearity
KW  - lived value
KW  - living conditions
KW  - low carbon technologies
KW  - maintenance
KW  - makers
KW  - market
KW  - markets
KW  - material things
KW  - money
KW  - morality
KW  - nanotechnology
KW  - old economies
KW  - oppressive states
KW  - political economy
KW  - political programs
KW  - power
KW  - pre-capitalist economies
KW  - predation
KW  - predators
KW  - production
KW  - progress
KW  - providers
KW  - radical alternatives
KW  - radical transcendence
KW  - radicals
KW  - reformers
KW  - scientific activity
KW  - social bonds
KW  - social innovation
KW  - social innovators
KW  - social interaction
KW  - social systems
KW  - societies
KW  - technologies
KW  - technology
KW  - utopias
KW  - wealthy economy
KW  - world economy
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; 1. After Capitalism --; 2. Barren and Pregnant Crises --; 3. The Essence of Capitalism --; 4. To Take or to Make --; 5. Capitalism's Critics --; 6. Anticapitalist Utopias and Neotopias --; 7. The Nature of Change --; 8. Creative and Predatory Technology --; 9. The Rise of Economies Based on Relationships and Maintenance --; 10. Capitalism's Generative Ideas --; 11. New Accommodations --; 12. Outgrowing Capitalism --; Afterword to the paperback edition --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400866199?locatt=mode:legacy
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