The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society

Peter F. Drucker

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The first book to present innovation and entrepreneurship as purposeful and systematic discipline which explains and analyzes the challenges and opportunities of America's new entrepreneurial economy. A superbly practical book that explains what established businesses, public survey institutions, and new yentures have to know, have to learn, and have to do in today's economy and marketplace.


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Drucker "describes seven different ways in which opportunities for innovation arise--from new technology to changing demographies and unexpected or odd events--and then suggests how to innovate inside existing businesses, new companies and organisations like universities and charities."

—The Economist

Peter F. Drucker was born in 1909 in Vienna and was educated there and in England. He received his doctorate in public and international law while working as a newspaper reporter in Frankfurt, Germany, and then worked as an economist for an international bank in London. In 1927, he came to the United States. Drucker's management books and analyses of economics and society are widely read and respected throughout the world and have been translated into more than 20 languages. He also has written a lively autobiography, two novels, and several volumes of essays. He has been a frequent contributor to various magazines and journals over the years and is an editorial columnist for The Wall Street Journal.

	Preface	ix
	Part One: The Knowledge Technologies
1	The End of Continuity	3
2	The New Industries and Their Dynamics	11
3	The New Entrepreneur	42
4	The New Economic Policies	58
	Part Two: From International to World Economy
5	The Global Shopping Center	77
6	Making the Poor Productive	102
7	Beyond the "New Economics"
	Part Three: A Society Of Organizations
8	The New Pluralism	171
9	Toward a Theory of Organizations	188
10	The Sickness of Government	212
11	How Can the Individual Survive?	243
	Part Four: The Knowledge Society
12	The Knowledge Economy	263
13	Work and Worker in the Knowledge Society	287
14	Has Success Spoiled the Schools?	311
15	The New Learning and the New Teaching	334
16	The Politics of Knowledge	349
17	Does Knowledge Have a Future?	372
	Conclusion	381
	Index	384

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