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Beyond Individualism (Hardcover, New)
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Beyond Individualism (Hardcover, New)
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The Reagan and Bush years have left us with a troublesome dilemma:
how to balance our budget deficit against our social deficit. This
book takes up the urgent question of how, in a time of economic
crisis and constraint, we can meet the pent-up demand for spending
on our nation's neglected poor, infirm, and disadvantaged, old and
young. Michael Piore's ambitious response is to develop a new
social theory that balances individual preferences against the
claims and responsibilities of the community. By explaining the
role of groups in economic and social life, this theory makes sense
of a host of perplexing social phenomena and policy issues, from
equal employment opportunity to international competitiveness to
the decline of organized labor, from multicultural education to
health insurance to the underclass. Piore traces our difficulties
in addressing these issues to the limits of liberal social theory,
particularly its sharp distinctions between individuality and
community. He offers an alternative view of individuality as
emerging through the discussions and debates conducted among a
community's members. These discussions, Piore suggests, have turned
inward, away from the borderlands where social groups and economic
organizations meet-and therein lies the crux of some of the
country's deepest political and economic problems. His book points
beyond the liberal conception of politics as a negotiation among
competing interests and of policymaking as technical
decisionmaking. Instead, it prescribes a politics focused on the
process of discussion and debate itself, a politics that enlarges
the borderlands by broadening the range of people who talk to one
another and the range of topics they address.
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