The Next Economy
This book suggests that we are facing an epochal economic and social shift, perhaps
of an importance unsurpassed since the bourgeois revolution that gave birth to the
capitalist economy that we have today. The next economy will be an ethical economy
where value is no longer based on labour as in the capitalist economy (nor on land
as in the feudal economy that preceded it), but on the ability to construct ethically
significant social relations.
Global Impact
This is no utopia: the ethical economy is already here, in brand management, in
advanced forms of knowledge work, on financial markets, and in the expanding range
of autonomous forms of social production- ranging from P2P software, via fan communities
to alternative forms of agriculture and food distribution- that have evolved around
new information and communication technologies. And its impact is set to grow with
the further diffusion and evolution of those technologies.
This Book
This book offers a first coherent theory of the ethical economy, examining its origins,
its present dynamics and its future potential. It draws out the implications of
this epochal shift for business, politics and society.
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The first two chapters of the book are available for download.
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