21st century economics : perspectives of socioeconomics for a changing world / edited by William E. Halal and Kenneth B. Taylor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Robert M. Solow -- Introduction: The Transition to a Global Information Economy / William E. Halal and Kenneth B. Taylor -- Pt. I. Forces Shaping the New Economic Order. 1. Transformations: The Forces of Capitalist Change / Ernest Sternberg. 2. Globalization: An Economic-Geographical Perspective / Peter Dicken. 3. The Infinite Resource: Mastering the Boundless Power of Knowledge / William E. Halal. 4. Regional Motors of the Global Economy / Allen J. Scott. 5. Voluntary Simplicity: A New Social Movement? / Amitai Etzioni -- Pt. II. Emerging Models of the Firm. 6. Enterprise in the Information Age / Sten A. Thore. 7. Cellular-Network Organizations / Raymond Miles, Charles C. Snow and John A. Matthews [and others]. 8. The Internal Market Economy / Russell L. Ackoff. 9. Business and the Environment: The Economics of a Clean Business / Paul Ekins. 10. Case Study of Lufthansa / Mark Lehrer -- Pt. III. Between Laissez-Faire and Industrial Policy.

11. Toward Developing a Twenty-First Century Economic Paradigm: Lessons from Myrdal, Schumpeter, and Hayek / James Angresano. 12. The Road to Ruin: Neoclassical Hegemony in Transition Economies / Robert J. McIntyre. 13. Japan Faces the Twenty-First Century / Koji Taira. 14. Social Enterprises and Civil Democracy in Sweden: Developing a Participatory Welfare Society for the Twenty-First Century / Victor A. Pestoff. 15. Healing the Economy the Humanistic Way / Mark A. Lutz. 16. The Quest for Universal Capitalism in the United States / Kenneth B. Taylor. 17. A Community-Oriented Economy / Severyn T. Bruyn -- Conclusion: On the Other Side of the Millennium: A Synthesis of Progressive Economic Thought / William E. Halal and Kenneth B. Taylor.

In 21st Century Economics, editors Halal and Taylor 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.

Exploring the causes and the effects of this new technological foundation for economic systems, the chapters reveal the invigorating benefits and unprecedented challenges that are sure to be a part of what some call the "central nervous system" of knowledge and information. 21st Century Economics helps readers to grasp the revolutionary nature of the current economic transition and to sense the power being unleashed by today's and tomorrow's vast technological advances.