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Book SynopsisThe book explores the effect of modern technological shifts on human society, showing that technologies are undergoing accelerating qualitative changes that open up new opportunities for personal development and satisfaction of wants and, simultaneously, engender risks associated with growing opportunities of human interference with nature and technogenic stress on the environment. Based on the study of cutting-edge technologies and resulting socioeconomic shifts, Bodrunov’s analysis outlines the shape of the civilizational crisis we face. It can only be overcome by founding a new industrial society of the second generation (if we consider the new industrial state described by J. K. Galbraith as the first generation) reliant on knowledge intensive material production and the gradual removal of humans from immediate material production.
Trade Review“Sergey Bodrunov’s lively book addresses one of the most controversial consequences of liberal globalization—the deindustrialisation of the advanced capitalist states. Following the line of thinking of writers such as Clark Kerr and J.K. Galbraith, Bodrunov insists on the revival of industrialization and in doing so he makes advances on earlier theorizing. He insists that the development of civilization calls for a higher level of material production predicated on human knowledge and he anticipates much of current theorizing about the effects of artificial intelligence. In a provocative discussion, predicated on the experience of post-socialist Russia, he calls for positive economic policies to enhance the capabilities of modern economies to advance to higher levels of industrial development. The book will appeal to readers seeking solutions to modern economic problems through state coordination.”
— David Lane, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Cambridge, UK
“As Marx, Veblen and John Kenneth Galbraith understood, human society co-evolves with its material and technological conditions, which fact has grave implications for those seduced by financialization or the post-industrial mirage. In The Coming New Industrial State: Reloaded, Sergey Bodrunov gives a fair—and sometimes harsh—portrait of modern Russia's fall into dependence on outside technologies, machines, and components. He advocates a path forward for Russia at the technical frontiers, with a mixed economy rooted in ‘an authentic culture’ without which, he writes, ‘there can be no effective industrial development.’ The war and sanctions may now catapult this analysis to the forefront.”
— James K. Galbraith, The University of Texas at Austin, Member, Free Economic Society and Foreign Member, Russian Academy of Sciences
“Sergey Bodrunov’s work is a major contribution to human knowledge, rooted both in his practical experience in Russian industry and government, and in revival of interest in the most profound issues in the philosophy of thought. It deserves the attention of everyone with an interest in innovation. But beyond that, anyone concerned with the rising challenge of new technologies should read it. At the center of The Coming New Industrial State lies the following proposition: until now, technology has driven society. The ‘information economy’ calls for a different relationship; it is society that must drive technology. Innovation, therefore, henceforth constitutes social innovation; a different way of organizing society. Bodronov not only poses the question, but provides much-needed answers.”
— Alan Freeman, Geopolitical Economy Research Group, University of Manitoba
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part One: Material Production and Industry: Technology, Labor, and Product
Chapter 1: Production and Its Product: The Industrial Mode of Production
Chapter 2: The Service Industry, Material Production, and Their Correlation in the Modern Economy
Part Two: The Russian Economic System and (De)industrialization
Chapter 3: Industrialization of the Economy as a Factor of Social Development; The Phenomenon of Modern Deindustrialization
Chapter 4: Industrial Development in Russia: Lessons from the Past
Chapter 5: The Deindustrialization of Russia and the Challenges of Reindustrialization
Chapter 6: Techno-Economic Paradigms and the Renewal of the Russian Economy: The Political-Economic Aspect
Chapter 7: The Russian Economic System: The Future of High-Tech Industrial Production
Part Three: The New Industrial State v.2
Chapter 8: The New Industrial State of the Twentieth Century
Chapter 9: The New Industrial State v.2: The Parameters of its Genesis
Part Four: Reindustrialization, Import Substitution, and Active Industrial Policy
Chapter 10: Technological Leadership and National Security
Chapter 11: Innovative Economic Development: Into NIS.2
Chapter 12: Industrial Policy as a Tool of Reindustrialization and Import Substitution
Chapter 13: Imperatives, Opportunities, and Challenges of Reindustrialization
Chapter 14: The Revival of Production, Science, and Education: The Primary Priority of Modern Industrial Policy
Chapter 15: NIS.2 as a Social System
Conclusion
