| The Third Revolution: Professional Elites in the Modern World Contributor(s): Perkin, Harold (Author), Perkin Professo (Author), Perkin, Professo (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415143373 ISBN-13: 9780415143370 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 1996 Annotation: The third revolution in human history--after the neolithic agrarian revolution and the modern industrial one--is the revolution of the professionals. Harold Perkin's brilliant new book examines the world's leading professional societies since World War II--the free market economies of the United States, Britain, France, West Germany, and Japan, and the defunct command economies of the Soviet Union and East Germany--and their domination by professional elites, notably state bureaucrats and corporate executives. Perkins highlights their extraordinary achievements--the highest living standards and the longest, healthiest, most rewarding lives in human history--but warns of the self-destructive greed and corruption which threaten the future of us all. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Economic History - History |
| Dewey: 305.553 |
| LCCN: 95044146 |
| Lexile Measure: 1700 |
| Physical Information: 1.13" H x 6.45" W x 9.51" (1.21 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume examines the leading professional societies since World War II - those in the free market economies of the United States, Britain, France, West Germany and Japan, and those in the collapsed command economies of East Germany and the Soviet Union. It praises their achievements, but also warns of the greed and corruption of their elites, aking whether corruption rather than ideology caused the collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and if Anglo-American capitalism is likely to go the same way. |
