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Transcending Capitalism : Visions of a New Society in Modern American Thought.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (337 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801454295
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Transcending CapitalismDDC classification:
  • 306.3/4209730904
LOC classification:
  • HM477
Online resources:
Contents:
TRANSCENDING CAPITALISM -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: To Name a New Society in the Making -- 1. Capitalism and Its Future on the Eve of World War I -- 2. The American Theory of Organized Capitalism -- 3. The Interwar Critique of Competitive Individualism -- 4. Talcott Parsons and the Evanescence of Capitalism -- 5. The Displacement of Economy in an Age of Plenty -- 6. The Heyday of Dynamic Sociology -- 7. The Great Reversal -- Conclusion: On Transitional Developments beyond Capitalism -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: Understanding why a generation of social theorists imagined the future of advanced societies would not be defined by capitalism but rather as being postcapitalist or postindustrial.
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TRANSCENDING CAPITALISM -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: To Name a New Society in the Making -- 1. Capitalism and Its Future on the Eve of World War I -- 2. The American Theory of Organized Capitalism -- 3. The Interwar Critique of Competitive Individualism -- 4. Talcott Parsons and the Evanescence of Capitalism -- 5. The Displacement of Economy in an Age of Plenty -- 6. The Heyday of Dynamic Sociology -- 7. The Great Reversal -- Conclusion: On Transitional Developments beyond Capitalism -- Notes -- Index.

Understanding why a generation of social theorists imagined the future of advanced societies would not be defined by capitalism but rather as being postcapitalist or postindustrial.

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