{"product_id":"the-locust-and-the-bee-predators-and-creators-in-capitalisms-future-9780691146966","title":"The Locust and the Bee  Predators and Creators in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe recent economic crisis was a dramatic reminder that capitalism can both produce and destroy. It's a system that by its very nature encourages predators and creators, locusts and bees. But, as Geoff Mulgan argues in this compelling, imaginative, and important book, the economic crisis also presents a historic opportunity to choose a radically di\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[I]nteresting and thought-provoking.\"--Frank Dillon, Irish Times \"Geoff Mulgan's The Locust and the Bee is an important contribution to this field.\"--John Lloyd, Financial Times \"There is much in Mulgan's analysis that will repay careful scrutiny... The Locust and the Bee abounds with arresting observations of this kind and no one will finish the book without having learned something new and important.\"--John Gray, New Statesman \"Mulgan is my former boss, but that doesn't stop me from saying that what he writes is always rewarding because he intellectually coaxes you into believing--however fleetingly--that a rotten system doesn't have to be this way.\"--Yvonne Roberts, Observer \"[E]xcellent.\"--Frank Pasquale, Concurring Opinions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1- After Capitalism 1  Chapter 2 - Barren and Pregnant Crises 17  Chapter 3 - The Essence of Capitalism 28   Chapter 4 - To Take or to Make 52 *The Roles of Creators and Predators  Chapter 5 - Capitalism's Critics 79  Chapter 6 - Anticapitalist Utopias and Neotopias 104   Chapter 7 - The Nature of Change 116 *How One System Becomes Another  Chapter 8- Creative and Predatory Technology 145  Chapter 9 - The Rise of Economies Based on Relationships and Maintenance 172  Chapter 10 - Capitalism's Generative Ideas 198   Chapter 11 - New Accommodations 230 *or How Societies (Occasionally) Jump  Chapter 12 - Outgrowing Capitalism 280  Notes 289  Acknowledgments 321  Index 323","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359110824279,"sku":"9780691146966","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691146966.jpg?v=1754123631","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-locust-and-the-bee-predators-and-creators-in-capitalisms-future-9780691146966","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}