Postindustrial Possibilities: A Critique of Economic Discourse
- ISBN-10
- 0520068130
- ISBN-13
- 9780520068131
- Category
- Economic forecasting
- Pages
- 227
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1990
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Author
- Fred L. Block
Description
While it is often acknowledged that we live in a "postindustrial" age, our economic concepts have lagged far behind our postmodern sensibility. In this incisive new work, the well-known sociologist, Fred Block, sheds obsolete and shopworn economic analysi.
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