03754cam a2200469 i 4500 20879404 BJBSDDR 20250901085949.0 ta 190307s2019 enk 000 0 eng 2018040956 9781788734974 hardback 9781788734981 paperback 9781788734998 (UK ebook) 9781788735001 (US ebook) 20879404 DLC eng DLC rda DLC pcc HD30.2 .U534 2019 338/.064 23 POL023000 POL010000 POL005000 bisacsh Mangabeira Unger, Roberto, 1947- author. 21350 The knowledge economy / Roberto Mangabeira Unger. London ; New York : Verso, 2019. vi, 298 pages ; 22 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "Revolutionary account of the transformative potential of the knowledge economy Adam Smith and Karl Marx recognized that the best way to understand the economy is to study the most advanced practice of production. Today that practice is no longer conventional manufacturing: it is the radically innovative vanguard known as the knowledge economy. In every part of the production system it remains a fringe excluding the vast majority of workers and businesses. This book explores the hidden nature of the knowledge economy and its possible futures. The confinement of the knowledge economy to these insular vanguards has become a driver of economic stagnation and inequality throughout the world. Traditional mass production has stopped working as a shortcut to economic growth. But the alternative--a deepened and socially inclusive form of the knowledge economy--continues to lie beyond reach in even the richest countries. The shape of contemporary politics on both the left and the right reflects a failure to come to terms with this dilemma and to overcome it. Unger explains the knowledge economy in the truncated and confined form that it has today and proposes the way to a knowledge economy for the many: changes not just in economic institutions but also in education, culture, and politics. Just as Smith and Marx did in their time, he uses an understanding of the most advanced practice of production to rethink both economics and the economy as a whole"-- Provided by publisher. "A revolutionary practice of production--the knowledge economy--has emerged in our time. It appears in every sector, not just in high-tech industry, but so far only as a series of insular vanguards that exclude the vast majority of workers and businesses. In this book Roberto Mangabeira Unger explores the hidden workings and the transformative potential of the knowledge economy. He describes the radical changes in economic and political institutions, and in ways of thinking, that could bring knowledge-intensive production to the whole economy--and inaugurate a period of accelerated and socially inclusive economic growth"-- Provided by publisher. Knowledge management. Information technology Management. Technological innovations Economic aspects. Technology and state. Education and state. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Economic Conditions. bisacsh POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. bisacsh POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism. bisacsh 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc 0 BK 124985 124985 0 0 lcc 0 0 APT BJB BJB APT 2025-09-01 0 HD30.2 .U534 2019 00000195099 2025-09-01 13:00:12 1 2025-09-01 BK