Post-capitalist society

Acknowledgments Introduction: the transformation Post-capitalist society and post-capitalist polity The shift to the knowledge society Outflanking the nation state The Third World Society - polity - knowledgePart One: Society 1 From capitalism to knowledge society The new meaning of knowledge The Industrial Revolution The Productivity Revolution The Management Revolution From knowledge to knowledges 2 The society of organizations The function of organization Organization as a distinct species The characteristics of organization Organization as a destabilizer The employee society 3 Labor, capital and their future Is labor still an asset? How much labor is needed and what kind? Capitalism without capitalists The pension fund and its owners The governance of corporations Making management accountable 4 The productivity of the new workforces Team work and team work The need to concentrate Restructuring organizations The case for outsourcing Averting a new class conflict 5 The responsibility-based organization Where right becomes wrong What is social responsibility? Power and organizations From command to information From information to responsibility To make everybody a contributorPart Two: Polity 6 From nation state to Megastate The paradox of the nation state The dimensions of the Megastate The Nanny State The Megastate as master of the economy The Fiscal State The Cold-War State The Japanese exception Has the Megastate worked? The Pork-Barrel State The Cold-War State: failure of success 7 Transnationalism, regionalism, tribalism Money knows no fatherland Nor does information The transnational needs: the environment Stamping out terrorism Transnational arms control The new reality: regionalism The return of tribalism The need for roots 8 The needed government turnaround The futility of military aid What to abandon in economic policy What to concentrate on Beyond the Nanny State 9 Citizenship through the social sector Patriotism is not enough The need for community The vanishing plant community The volunteer as citizenPart Three: Knowledge 10 Knowledge: its economics; its productivity The economics of knowledge The productivity of knowledge The management requirements Only connect 11 The accountable school The new performance demands Learning to learn The school in society Schools as partners The accountable school 12 The Educated Person Index