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Overview
Twentieth-century capitalism and socialism propped each other up. Both belonged to the modern industrialized period of human history when the powerful interest groups of business and state dominated people, and Euro-American culture and power dominated the world. An emerging post-modern worldview foreshadows possibilities for a new path of progress, more deeply concerned for people and nature. Based on articles and lectures, this collection explores what this new path of progress could mean for politics, work, welfare, health, energy, the life of families and neighborhoods, the world role of today's rich countries, and other aspects of the human predicament today.Synopsis
Explores what emerging postmodern worldviews could mean for politics, work, welfare, health, and other aspects of the human predicament today.
Booknews
Collects 16 lectures and essays from the period 1977-96, four of which are previously unpublished. The works reflect the author's position that what is needed is a path of progress based on cooperative self- reliance, rather than the further growth of dependence. He explains the implications of this kind of progress for politics, energy and resources, work, welfare, monetary systems, health, and national and local policy in the industrialized countries of Great Britain, Europe, and North America. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.