The background of the article is Marxism's lack of a notion of management. The article suggests that anyone rethinking capitalism should pause for a moment to check on the evidence of such a notion. It seems necessary because today's theory of capitalism can no longer be content with a...

We start our description of network society by recalling the simple, yet powerful mechanism of producing and dealing with social uncertainty proposed and developed by Harrison C. White in his eponymous Identity and Control. Networks are considered to consist of, and reproduce, a number of...