The Ecological Vision
Subtitle: Reflections on the American Condition
By: Peter Drucker
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9781351294560
Subjects: Social ecology; Nature; Effect of human beings on; Communities; Social conditions; Écologie sociale; Homme; Influence sur la nature; Communauté; Conditions sociales
Description: "Periods of great social change reveal a tension between the need for continuity and the need for innovation. The twentieth century has witnessed both radical alteration and tenacious durability in social organization, politics, economics, and art. To comprehend these changes as history and as guideposts to the future, Peter F. Drucker has, over a lifetime, pursued a discipline that he terms social ecology. The writings brought together in The Ecological Vision define the discipline as a sustained inquiry into the man-made environment and an active effort at maintaining equilibrium between change and conservation. The chapters in this volume range over a wide array of disciplines and subject matter. They are linked by a common concern with the interaction of the individual and society, and a common perspective that views economics, technology, politics, and art as dimensions of social experience and expressions of social value. Included here are profiles of such figures as Henry Ford, John C. Calhoun, Soren Kierkegaard, and Thomas Watson; analyses of the economics of Keynes and Schumpeter;and explorations of the social functions of business, management, information, and technology. Drucker's chapters on Japan examine the dynamics of cultural and economic change and afford striking comparisons with similar processes in the West. In the concluding chapter, "Reflections of a Social Ecologist," Drucker traces the development of his discipline through such intellectual antecedents as Alexis de Tocqueville, Walter Bagehot, and Wilhelm von Humboldt. He illustrates the ecological vision, an active, practical, and moral approach to social questions. Peter Drucker summarizes a lifetime of work and exemplifies the communicative clarity that are requisites of all intellectual enterprises. His book will be of interest to economists, business people, foreign affairs specialists, and intellectual historians."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part, One American Experiences  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter Introduction to Part One  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter 1 The American Genius Is Political  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter 2 Calhoun's Pluralism  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter 3 Henry Ford: The Last Populist  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter 4 IBM's Watson: Vision for Tomorrow  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter 5 The Myth of American Uniformity  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: part, Two Economics as a Social Dimension  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter Introduction to Part Two  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter 6 The Economic Basis of American Politics  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter 7 The Poverty of Economic Theory  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter 8 The Delusion of Profits  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter 9 Schumpeter and Keynes  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter 10 Keynes: Economics as a Magical System  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: part, Three The Social Function of Management  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter Introduction to Part Three  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter 11 Management's Role  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter 12 Management: The Problems of Success  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter 13 Social Innovation: Management's New Dimension  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: part, Four Business as a Social Institution  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter Introduction to Part Four  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter 14 Can There Be \  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter 15 The New Productivity Challenge  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter 16 The Emerging Theory of Manufacturing  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter 17 The Hostile Takeover and its Discontents  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: part, Five Work, Tools, and Society  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter Introduction to Part Five  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter 18 Work and Tools  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter 19 Technology, Science, and Culture  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter 20 India and Appropriate Technology  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter 21 The First Technological Revolution and Its Lessons  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: part, Six The Information-Based Society  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter Introduction to Part Six  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter 22 Information, Communications, and Understanding  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter 23 Information and the Riture of the City  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter 24 The Information-Based Organization  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: part, Seven Japan as Society and Civilization  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter Introduction to Part Seven  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter 25 A View of Japan through Japanese Art  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter 26 Japan: The Problems of Success  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter 27 Behind Japan's Success  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter 28 Misinterpreting Japan and the Japanese  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter 29 How Westernized Are the Japanese?  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: part, Eight Why Society Is Not Enough  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter Introduction to Part Eight  -- Peter F. Drucker; title: chapter 30 The Unfashionable Kierkegaard -- Peter F. Drucker.