The New Realities: In Government and Politics / in Economics and Business / in Society and World View - Softcover

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9780060916992: The New Realities: In Government and Politics / in Economics and Business / in Society and World View

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ISBN 10: 0060916990 ISBN 13: 9780060916992

Publisher: MANDARIN, 1990

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Challenging conventional wisdom, management-guru Drucker argues that America's sagging economic status has not resulted from a failure of its manufacturing base, but instead from the worldwide collapse in the 1980s of commodity exports and prices. The success of "Japan Inc.," in his assessment, illustrates the importance of a close government-business relationship, not the need for central planning. Author of some 20 books, Drucker has provocative things to say here on excessive military spending ("perhaps the major cause" of our loss of competitiveness) and environmental problems that, in his view, demand a "transnational" approach. His vision of a "post-business" society, however, where "knowledge workers" flourish and voluntary "third-sector" organizations forge bonds of community, seems unrealistic. Among the topics he broaches are the "Russian Empire," school reform, "information-based organizations" and management as a liberal art. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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'Peter Drucker was the first of the analytical futurists and the first of the management philosophers. And for me he is still the best.'
Wall Street Journal
'His breadth of vision, his internationalism and his sober realism combine to make his analysis of the present and predictions about the future gripping.' The Economist

About the Author:

Peter F. Drucker has been Clarke Professor of Social Science and Management at Claremont Graduate School in California since 1971. He is the author of The Ecological Vision, The Concept of the Corporation, The New Society, The Future of Industrial Man, The Age of Discontinuity, and most recently, his new collection, A Functioning Society, all published by Transaction.

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