The Evolution of Progress: The End of Economic Growth and the Beginning of Human Transformation
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Random House Inc, 1993
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Random House Inc., 1993. Hardcover in Very Good Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket. Mylar jacket cover. Grey boards with qtr dark blue cloth, stamped in gold on front and spine. Very clean and unmarked, with both upper corners and lower front near spine edge gently bumped; slight rubbing of lower board edges. Tight and solid. Internals in Fine Condition. A penetrating analysis of the factors driving the world economy and an examination of today's cutting-edge biotechnology research--and a look into the future. The author contends that economic progress is coming to an end, exhausted by its own success; a new vision of human progress will replace it--transformation of people themselves through advances in neurobiology, genetic engineering, and gerontology. 382 pages with index. 6.25 x 9.5 inches. 1993, Random House Inc, New York, New York, USA.
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- Título
- The Evolution of Progress: The End of Economic Growth and the Beginning of Human Transformation
- Autor
- Paepke, C. Owen
- Editorial
- Random House Inc
- Año de publicación
- 1993
- Estado
- Very Good
- Sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 10
- 0679415823
- ISBN 13
- 9780679415824
- Dimensiones
- 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall
- Catálogos de vendedores
- Politics & Government, Political Philosophy", Economics
Economic progress is coming to an end, exhausted by its own success. Poised to replace it, argues Paepke, is a radical new vision of human progress: the transformation of people themselves through advances in neurobiology, genetic engineering, and gerontology.
Drawing on history, economics, science, and sociology, Paepke traces the rise and fall of material progress and explains why economic growth, our nearly constant companion of over two hundred years, is dying. Not hibernating, not moving to Japan, not waiting for the right industrial, educational, or fiscal policies, but dying.
Economic progress remained virtually stagnant until the Industrial Revolution, when the development of free markets and capital, and advances in technology and transportation, produced rapid economic growth. By the 1990s, Paepke argues, those forces have been spent. The evidence transcends the current economic slump. In fact, wages and productivity gains have been declining throughout the industrialized world for more than a decade. In the United States, wages and productivity have been flat since 1973.
In the coming decades, Paepke says, we will not be wealthier, but our grandchildren will be smarter and healthier, our lives will be longer, and our computers will be thinking for themselves. Exploring the frontiers of the latest scientific research, Paepke maps the contours of a new paradigm for progress and offers a vision of how these fields will transform the way we live.
Erudite and brilliantly argued, The Evolution of Progress is a penetrating analysis of the factors driving the world economy, a probing examination of today's cutting-edge biotechnology research - and a bracing look into the future. It offers nothing less than a new way of understanding the vital new forces sweeping through the world.
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Economic progress is coming to an end, exhausted by its own success. Poised to replace it, argues Paepke, is a radical new vision of human progress: the transformation of people themselves through advances in neurobiology, genetic engineering, and gerontology.
Drawing on history, economics, science, and sociology, Paepke traces the rise and fall of material progress and explains why economic growth, our nearly constant companion of over two hundred years, is dying. Not hibernating, not moving to Japan, not waiting for the right industrial, educational, or fiscal policies, but dying.
Economic progress remained virtually stagnant until the Industrial Revolution, when the development of free markets and capital, and advances in technology and transportation, produced rapid economic growth. By the 1990s, Paepke argues, those forces have been spent. The evidence transcends the current economic slump. In fact, wages and productivity gains have been declining throughout the industrialized world for more than a decade. In the United States, wages and productivity have been flat since 1973.
In the coming decades, Paepke says, we will not be wealthier, but our grandchildren will be smarter and healthier, our lives will be longer, and our computers will be thinking for themselves. Exploring the frontiers of the latest scientific research, Paepke maps the contours of a new paradigm for progress and offers a vision of how these fields will transform the way we live.
Erudite and brilliantly argued, The Evolution of Progress is a penetrating analysis of the factors driving the world economy, a probing examination of today's cutting-edge biotechnology research - and a bracing look into the future. It offers nothing less than a new way of understanding the vital new forces sweeping through the world.
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