21st Century Economics: Perspectives of Socioeconomics for a Changing World

As the twenty-first century looms ahead, it is becoming increasingly clear that economic life will be different on the other side of the millennium. In Twenty-First Century Economics, the editors have assembled a group of leading economists and scholars to provide authoritative analyses of the powerful forces now shaping economic systems and to estimate where these trends are headed. The essays compare the Information Revolution of today to the Industrial Revolution of yesterday and show how, for the first time in history, economic affairs are being organized around the pursuit of knowledge.

Helps readers to grasp the revolutionary nature of the current economic transition and to sense the power being unleashed by todays and tomorrows vast technological advances.

William E. Halal is Professor of Management Science at George Washington University.

Kenneth B. Taylor is Professor of Economics at Villanova University.

Foreword * Introduction: The Transition to a Global Information Economy--William E. Halal & Kenneth B. Taylor * Economics in the Information Age--Sten A. Thore * Regionalization of the Global Economy--Allen J. Scott * Business and the Environment: The Economics of Clean Business--Paul Ekins * Fostering Community in a Turbulent World--Amitai Etzioni * Towards a Human Economy--Mark Lutz * Network Organizations--Raymond Miles * The Internal Market Economy--Russell Ackoff * The Universal Stock Ownership Plan---Ward Morehouse, Stuart Speiser & Kenneth B. Taylor * The New Management--William Halal * New Traditions in Business--Michael Ray * A 21st Century Economic Paradigm: Lessons from Myrdal, Schumpeter and Hayek--James Angresano * Roads to Ruin: Neo-Classical Hegemony in Eastern Europe--Robert McIntyre * Restructuring the Japanese Economic System--Kaji Taira * Scandinavian Negotiated Economies Revisited--Victor Pestoff * World Governance--Severyn Bruyn * Economics on the Other Side of the Millennium: A Synthesis of Progressive Economic Thought--William E. Halal & Kenneth B. Taylor * Index