The coming of post-industrial society; a venture in social forecasting.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author: Bell, Daniel, 1919-2011
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, Basic Books [1973]
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Table of Contents:
  • From industrial to post-industrial society: theories of social development
  • From goods to services: the changing shape of the economy
  • The dimensions of knowledge and technology: the new class structure of post-industrial society
  • The subordination of the corporation: the tension between the economizing and sociologizing modes
  • Social choice and social planning: the adequacy of our concepts and tools
  • "Who will rule?" Politicians and technocrats in the post-industrial society
  • Coda: An agenda for the future: How social systems change; the future of science; meritocracy and equality; the end of scarcity; culture and consciousness.