ON THE EDGE: LIVING WITH GLOBAL CAPITALISM

Book ID/图书代码： 11320008B23404

English Summary/英文概要： This collection of essays charts the contours of contemporary capitalism, analyses the role of the business firm in the new context of innovation and competitiveness, discuses the impact of globalisation, and considers new capitalism.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 纵观二十世纪，资本主义现象已渗透到现代社会和经济的发展之中，为此本书勾画了当代资本主义的大致轮廓，进一步剖析经济公司在新一论的创新和竞争力驱动下的生存模式。
多角度探讨了全球化，特别是金融发展对其的影响。对于新的资本主义政策是否能与社会和谐发展互相融合做出必要的考虑。
此外，本书的编辑特别研究了资本主义作为一种文化形式对日常生活的影响，预测在新纪元到来之际，政治上是否存在任何可能出现的潜在对手。(ZY)

Awards/获奖情况：Amazon.co.uk Review
Post Cold War-- with the triumph of western-style democracy and an explosion of powerful new technologies--it seems increasingly probable that we are living through the greatest of all revolutions, inexorably drawing in every corner of our once huge globe. So what are the implications? Global capitalism, as the title of On the Edge suggests, is "precarious and potentially dangerous", and when this sentiment is evinced by Will Hutton, author of the agenda-setting The State We’re In, and Anthony Giddens, director of the London School of Economics and famously Tony Blair’s most favoured "guru of the third way", it is to be taken seriously.
They bring together 10 original contributions by some of the leading thinkers of our day that shed light on various aspects of global capitalism and globalisation. Global finance, naturally, figures prominently: George Soros discusses the need for a new global financial architecture, Manuel Castells outlines his concept of the "Automaton", while Paul Volcker examines ways of mitigating the less desirable nature of the market. All of this is done in a style that will be accessible to the reasonably knowledgeable layman, though of course a doctorate in economics always helps when the figures and jargon do, unavoidably, creep in. Further contributions examine areas such as the effect of globalisation on regional and national cultures and on our own individual identities, just exactly what role democratically elected governments can find for themselves as more and more real power ebbs away from them, and the relationship between the haves and the have-nots, both countries and people, which tends to be increasingly iniquitous. All the contributors seem to agree in one respect--within global capitalism there is enormous capacity for good, for the betterment of all of humanity, but conversely, there is an inherent potential for outcomes that most would consider altogether disagreeable. For anyone interested in helping to guide us closer to the former--and we are all stakeholders now--this will be a valuable, thought-provoking resource. --Alisdair Bowles

About the Author/作者介绍： Will Hutton, 英国作家, 周刊专栏作家，前任伦敦“关注者”杂志的总编辑，现任工作基金会的首席行政员。在取得MBA管理学位以前，曾为一个股票经纪人工作,之后在BBC公司工作了十余年。
他最知名和最具有影响力的作品是，。近期的作品出版于2007年1月，主要阐述西方国家对中国劳动力分配在全球范围内上升做出的回应和关注。
Anthony Giddens, 伦敦政治经济学院的主任,当今社会最具有号召力的社会学家之一，能将德国的“时代精神” 学说译成一种可被目前社会所认同的理论。“卫报”曾把他比喻为“最能够引领时代发展的社会学家。”
作为颇具影响力的社会言论家，他的作品大多是对社会学的介绍以及对社会学想象的延伸创作，其作品在全世界范围内销售良好，吸引诸多读者的喜爱与追捧。

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