This work examines how economic and social changes are interrelated, and how new technologies are leading to new processes and a re-shaping of how economic activity is organized. It also looks at whether there is a similar transformation taking place as that which occured in the 19th century.
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Höhe: 156 mm
Breite: 224 mm
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978-1-85628-866-8 (9781856288668)
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Part 1 The dynamism of change: technology and change in the 19th century; technology and change in contemporary society; society in flux. Part 2 Economics and society: the potency of economic ideas; economics and ideologies; social response to economic change; working in community; economic and social models; economics and culture. Part 3 A society of value: the imperialism of the economic model; Britain and the challenge of European Union; epilogue - the unblessed venture.