The age of discontinuity

Description:

Drucker discerns four major areas of discontinuity underlying contemporary social and cultural reality. These are: (1) the explosion of new technologies resulting in major new industries; (2) the change from an international to a world economy - an economy that presently lacks policy, theory, and institutions; (3) a new sociopolitical reality of pluralistic institutions that poses drastic political, philosophical, and spiritual challenges; and (4) the new universe of knowledge based on mass education and its implications in work, leisure, and leadership. Peter Drucker brings to this work an intimate knowledge and objective view of the particular and general. The Age of Discontinuity is a fascinating and important blueprint for shaping a future already very much with us.

subjects: Economic development,  Education,  Organization, research,  International economic relations,  Economic history, 1945-,  Economic history,  Social history,  Organization,  Research,  Sociology,  Histoire économique,  Développement économique,  Economics,  Organization and Administration,  Social history, 20th century,  Economic history 1945-1971,  Forecasts,  Social history 1945-,  Economic forecasting,  Organizational sociology,  Twentieth century,  Futurologie,  Organizational Studies,  Histoire sociale

Times: 1945-1971,  1945-,  1945- .,  20th century