Social futures, global visions /
Hewitt de Alcántara, Cynthia.
Alcántara, Cynthia Hewitt De.
Oxford, U.K. ; Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers ; [Geneva] : UNRISD,
1996.
"This text was originally published as special issue 27:2 of Development and Change"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface / Dharam Ghai -- Introduction / Cynthia Hewitt de Alcátara -- Economic opportunity, civil society and political liberty / Ralf Dahrendorf -- Palace fundamentalism and liberal democracy: oil, arms and irrationality / Fatema Mernissi -- The future of the state / Eric Hobsbawm -- The national question in Africa: internal imperatives / Wole Soyinka -- Positive aspects of Community and the dangers of fragmentation / Amitai Etzioni -- The perils of utopia: the Russian intelligentsia under communism and perestroika / Tatyana Tolstaya -- The debate on economic and social security in the late eighteenth century: lessons of a road not taken / Emma Rothschild -- Traditional co-operatives in modern japan: rethinking alternatives to cosmopolitanism and nativism / Tetsuo Najita -- Affluence, poverty, and the idea of a post-scarcity society / Anthony Giddens -- On the social costs of modernization: social disintegration, atomie/anomie and social development / Johan Galtung.
Social prediction.
Social change.
Social history.