The politics and the economics -- The Industrial Revolution in Britain -- Economics and politics in 19th century America -- Politics of resistance in the 19th century -- Britain: The inter war years -- The Progressive Era in the United States -- Britain and the post-war settlement -- Politics...

From the author of the bestseller The Rise of the Creative Class, a book that frames the economic meltdown of 2008-09 not as a crisis but as an opportunity to "reset," and, in doing so, paints a fascinating picture of what our economy, society, and geography will look like--of how we will work...

Introduction : to name a new society in the making -- Capitalism and its future on the eve of World War I -- The American theory of organized capitalism -- The interwar critique of competitive individualism -- Talcott Parsons and the evanescence of capitalism -- The displacement of economy in an...