The Future and Its Enemies: the Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, & Progress
- List Price: $25.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Free Press
- Publish date: 12/01/1998
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The end of the Cold War and the rise of new technologies have dissolved the traditional, political, and cultural categories by which we define ourselves and our causes. Virginia Postrel argues that the struggle for the 21st century will pit the proponents of "dynamism, " who embrace open-ended discovery, critique, and competition, against the advocates of "stasis, " who demand a return to an earlier time or the bureaucratic management of the present.
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In The Future and Its Enemies, Postrel makes a passionate argument for dynamism, showing how progress in technology, business, and the arts depends on the principles of choice and competition. She urges us to give up the notion that civilization requires us to conform to a central organizing theme, and to welcome a world where we are free to innovate, create, and compete -- and where society can evolve naturally toward greater prosperity, diversity, and choice.
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