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Post-Capitalist Society

by Peter F. Drucker, HarperBusiness, 1993

This delightful little paperback, a national best seller, should be required reading, not just for business leaders, but for all voting citizens. For those who want to understand why and how the future of business and Western society will never be the same again, this is a good place to start. The San Francisco Chronical said this was, "The most thought provoking book the renowned management guru has written in years."

John D. Trudel CMC

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Introduction:

The Transformation

EVERY FEW HUNDRED YEARS in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. We cross what in an earlier book* I called a "divide." Within a few short decades, society rearranges itself - its world view; its basic values; its social and political structure; its arts; its key institutions. Fifty years later, there is a new world. And the people born then cannot even imagine the world in which their grand parents lived and into which their own parents - were born.

We are currently living through just such a transformation. It is creating the post-capitalist society, which is the subject of this book.

One such transformation occurred in the thirteenth century...

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* The New Realities (1989).

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