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Title: Visions of the Future: The Distant Past, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (Oxford American Lectures) by Robert Heilbroner ISBN: 0-19-510286-X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Tour-de-force.
Comment: In this small book Robert Heilbroner succeeds in summarizing his vision on the history of mankind from the beginning to the ... future.
"Resignation sums up the Distant Past's vision of the future, hopefulness was that of Yesterday; and apprehension is the dominant mood of Today." (p.69)
His analyses are succinct, clear and on target.
His vision for tomorrow and after is more speculative:"a spectrum of capitalisms is the most probable political setting for the Western world over the coming of the next century, but that ultimately capitalism will exhaust its vitality, perhaps making way in some societies for a more egalitarian society and in others for more centralized and controlledones." (p.115)
I believe that capitalism will continue to be the dominant economic system in the far future, but that the proceeds of the successes of capitalism will be better distributed under the pressure of the democratic process.
But I agree with the author that in order to 'save' our planet, we need a stabilization of the population of the globe and a better protection of the environment.
A small, but important and stimulating book. Not to be missed.
Rating: 2
Summary: Inconsistent and lackes historical support
Comment: Most noticeable error in Heilbroners work is the lack of a reasonable historical support from which he arrived to his conclusions. Although Heilbroner may have provided a plausible conclusion on what things might imaginably be, especially in the field of economics from which he laid heavy emphasis in the last part, he failed to provide to the readers justification on his central concept of dividing the distant past, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. In short, the most contestable part of his study is the dating of the period. Going through the text repeatedly, I can almost say with certainty that no where in the book can we find a valid even justification on the timelines that separates the so-called distinctive eras of mankind. Much worse is Heilbroners summation of the mood of this era's stating that of the distant past as characterized by resignation, hopefulness that of yesterday and apprehension for today. One would marvel on the genius of the author on such summation in so brief a book, which poorly contains sufficient historical data, not even enough to assert clearly the division of time.
Rating: 5
Summary: A different vision of our visions.
Comment: Robert Heilbroner has again proven the insight which has made him one of the twentieth century's greatest economic minds. Now, Heilbroner has turned from ecnomy and focused his intellect on human perception of the future. He categorizes human history into four major eras: Distant Past, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. He then goes on to illustrate how each era perceived the future and what it would bring. Using this, Heilbroner then postulates how our perception has changed and what the future may hold
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Title: The Crisis of Vision in Modern Economic Thought by Robert L. Heilbroner, William S. Milberg ISBN: 0521497744 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 26 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Marxism: For and Against by Robert L. Heilbroner ISBN: 0393951669 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 December, 1980 List Price(USD): $17.75 |
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Title: ECONOMICS EXPLAINED : EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HOW THE ECONOMY WORKS AND WHERE ITS GOING by Robert L. Heilbroner, Lester Thurow ISBN: 0684846411 Publisher: Touchstone Pub. Date: 05 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers by Robert L. Heilbroner ISBN: 068486214X Publisher: Touchstone Pub. Date: 10 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: 21st Century Capitalism by Robert Heilbroner ISBN: 0393312283 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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