The knowledge economy

Explores the hidden nature of the knowledge economy and its possible futures. Unger explains the knowledge economy in the truncated and confined form that it has today and proposes the way to a knowledge economy for the many: changes not just in economic institutions but also in education, culture, and politics. Just as Smith and Marx did in their time, he uses an understanding of the most advanced practice of production to rethink both economics and the economy as a whole. --From publisher description.

Includes index.

The most advanced practice of production -- The knowledge economy: its characteristics described at the level of management and production engineering -- The deep structure of the knowledge economy: relaxing or reversing the constraint of diminishing marginal returns -- The deep structure of the knowledge economy: production, imagination, and cooperation -- The deep structure of the knowledge economy: trust, discretion, and the moral culture of production -- The confinement of the knowledge economy: the fact and the riddle -- Pseudo-vanguardism and hyper-insularity -- Precarious employment -- The confinement of the knowledge economy: the consequences for economic stagnation and inequality -- The confinement of the knowledge economy: the beginning of an explanation -- Making the knowledge economy inclusive: the cognitive-educational requirements -- Making the knowledge economy inclusive: the social-moral requirements -- Making the knowledge economy inclusive: the legal-institutional requirements -- Background incitements: generalized experimentalism and high-energy democracy -- Inclusive vanguardism and the dilemma of economic development -- Inclusive vanguardism and the political …