The age of discontinuity : guidelines to our changing society / Peter F. Drucker.

Introduction to the transaction edition, vii -- Preface to the 1983 edition, xi -- Preface to the original edition, xxvii -- Part one. The knowledge technologies -- 1. The end of continuity, 3 -- 2. The new industries and their dynamics, 11 -- 3. The New entrepreneur, 42 -- 4. The new economic policies, 58 -- Part two. From international to world economy -- 5. The global shopping center, 77 -- 6. Making the poor productive, 102 -- 7. Beyond the new economics, 137 -- Part Three. A society of organizations -- 8. The new pluralism, 171 -- 9. Toward a theory of organizations, 188 -- 10. The sickness of government, 212. How can the individual survive?, 243 -- Part four. The knowledge society -- 12. The knowledge economy, 265 -- 13. Work and worker in the knowledge society, 287 -- 14. Has success spoiled the schools?, 311 -- 15. The new learning and the new teaching, 334 -- 16. The politics of knowledge, 349 -- 17. Does knowledge have a future?, 372 -- Conclusion, 381 -- Index, 384.