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The Locust and the Bee: Predators and Creators in Capitalism´s Future
Geoff Mulgan
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Description for The Locust and the Bee: Predators and Creators in Capitalism´s Future
Hardback.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
344
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691146966
SKU
V9780691146966
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About Geoff Mulgan
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Locust and the Bee: Predators and Creators in Capitalism´s Future
"[I]nteresting and thought-provoking."
Frank Dillon, Irish Times "Geoff Mulgan's The Locust and the Bee is an important contribution to this field."
John Lloyd, Financial Times "There is much in Mulgan's analysis that will repay careful scrutiny... The Locust and the Bee abounds with arresting observations of this kind and no one will finish the book without having learned something new and important."
John ... Read more
Frank Dillon, Irish Times "Geoff Mulgan's The Locust and the Bee is an important contribution to this field."
John Lloyd, Financial Times "There is much in Mulgan's analysis that will repay careful scrutiny... The Locust and the Bee abounds with arresting observations of this kind and no one will finish the book without having learned something new and important."
John ... Read more