The Second Curve: Thoughts on Reinventing Society

by Charles Handy

Overview

Charles Handy builds on a life's work to glimpse into the future and see what challenges and opportunities lie ahead. He looks at current trends in capitalism and asks whether it is a sustainable system. He explores the dangers of a society built on credit. He challenges the myth that remorseless growth is essential. He even asks whether we should rethink our roles in life—as students, parents, workers and voters—and what the aims of an ideal society of the future should be. Provocative and thoughtful, he sets out the questions we all need to ask ourselves—and points us in the direction of some of the answers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847941343
Publisher:	Random House UK
Publication date:	05/01/2016
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Charles Handy is an independent writer, broadcaster and teacher. He has been an oil executive, an economist, a professor at the London Business School, the Warden of St. George's House in Windsor Castle and the chairman of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce. He was educated in Ireland, England (Oxford University) and the U.S. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). His many books include The Elephant and the Flea, Gods of Management, Myself and Other Important Matters, and Waiting for the Mountain to Move.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction 1

1 The Second Curve 19

2 The DIY Society 34

3 The New Disruption 45

4 The Workplace 57

5 The Market 70

6 The Dilemmas of Growth 83

7 The Glass Towers of Capitalism 96

8 The Citizen Organisation 109

9 The New Management 122

10 The Ponzi Society 137

11 The Just Society 148

12 The Golden Seeds 163

13 The Schools of the Future 176

14 The Challenges of Democracy 191

15 The Necessity of Others 206

16 The Contract with Ourselves 218