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The Future and Its Enemies
The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise and Progress
by Virginia Postrel
ISBN: 0684862697
ISBN-13: 9780684862699
Format: Paperback
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Summary
Virginia Postrel, the editor of Reason magazine, makes a passionate, libertarian argument for what she terms "dynamism". Postrel explains how progress and the future of technology, business, and the arts, depends upon the principles of competition and choice. She posits "dynamic" and "static" as terms that could replace "left" and "right" in looking towards the future of the United States.
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published date: 1999
Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches
Weight: 0.55 pounds
Publisher's Notes
Virginia Postrel redefines the political and cultural categories that shape our world, persuasively arguing that current struggles over such important issues as trade, biotechnology, immigration, education, and the environment represent a clash not between "left" and "right, " but between "dynamism" and "stasis." A passionate proponent of the dynamic approach, she analyzes how true progress stems from the ideas of individuals unencumbered by nostalgia for the past or the static assumptions and bureaucratic rules of the present.
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Future and Its Enemies, The: The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise and Progress
Postrel, Virginia
London, United Kingdom: Pocket Books, 1999. Book shows moderate wear/ spine tight, pages clean/ covers slightly creased; a small tear on front cover; moderate edge wear/ several page tips creased. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback. Good/No Dust Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by Harvest Moon Farm Book Cellar (United States)
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Free Press, 1999-01-01. Softcover. New. GREAT Bargain Book Deal - some may have small remainder mark - Ships out by NEXT Business Day - 100% Satisfaction Guarantee! ( more information) Offered by BookCloseouts.com (Canada)
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Free Press, 1999. Paperback. New. Brand New, crisp and unread! May have remainder mark and/or very light shelf wear. Review: Virginia Postrel smashes conventional political boundaries in this libertarian manifesto. World-views should be defined not by how they view the present, she says, but the future. Do they aim to control it, as many conservative reactionaries and liberal planners want to do? Or do they embrace it, even though they can't know what lies ahead? Postrel (editor of Reason magazine) firmly places herself in this latter category--the dynamists, she calls her happy tribe--and urges the rest of us to sign up. The future of economic prosperity, technological progress, and cultural innovation depends upon embracing principles of choice and competition. The downside of this philosophy, Postrel readily notes, is that it doesn't allow us to manage tomorrow by acting today. And that's exactly the point: we shouldn't want to. A future constructed by an infinite number of individual decisions, made privately, is one she believes we shoul Orders normally ship in 1-2 business days depending on what time payment is completed. ( more information) Offered by Desktop Music, LLC (United States)
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