Periods of great social change reveal a tension between the need
for continuity and the need for innovation. The twentieth century
has witnessed both radical alteration and tenacious durability in
social organization, politics, economics, and art. To comprehend
these changes as history and as guideposts to the future, Peter F.
Drucker has, over a lifetime, pursued a discipline that he terms
social ecology. The writings brought together in The Ecological
Vision define the discipline as a sustained inquiry into the
man-made environment and an active effort at maintaining
equilibrium between change and conservation.
The chapters in this volume range over a wide array of
disciplines and subject matter. They are linked by a common concern
with the interaction of the individual and society, and a common
perspective that views economics, technology, politics, and art as
dimensions of social experience and expressions of social value.
Included here are profiles of such figures as Henry Ford, John C.
Calhoun, Soren Kierkegaard, and Thomas Watson; analyses of the
economics of Keynes and Schumpeter;and explorations of the social
functions of business, management, information, and technology.
Drucker's chapters on Japan examine the dynamics of cultural and
economic change and afford striking comparisons with similar
processes in the West.
In the concluding chapter, "Reflections of a Social Ecologist,"
Drucker traces the development of his discipline through such
intellectual antecedents as Alexis de Tocqueville, Walter Bagehot,
and Wilhelm von Humboldt. He illustrates the ecological vision, an
active, practical, and moral approach to social questions. Peter
Drucker summarizes a lifetime of work and exemplifies the
communicative clarity that are requisites of all intellectual
enterprises. His book will be of interest to economists, business
people, foreign affairs specialists, and intellectual
historians.
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