Description: Reimagining Capitalism: Applying Negative Dialectics for a Better Future by David M. Atkinson In Reimagining Capitalism, Atkinson confronts the need to rethink capitalism and presents an integrated range of thinking through a lens of applied negative dialectics, questioning how and why things might have occurred, and where and how we might begin to improve them. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The Covid-19 pandemic reinforced the perception that capitalism is in crisis, that the future is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous, and that, increasingly, our thinking about it and ability to manage and organize ourselves within it, are challenges we are ill-equipped for. Despite the efforts of many writers, and a surfeit of manuscripts concerning the need to rethink capitalism, questions concerning the struggle for social and economic justice remain unanswered. While some suggest that with corrective action, businesses can save the world, there is an acceptance that they cannot do so alone. However, while governments might strengthen their institutions, enacting more effective policies, the challenge is simply laid bare at the feet of industry and commerce. Is the challenge to confront the establishment just too big to face? Government institutions and the barons of industry and commerce are but interrelated, interconnected, interplaying components in one socio-economic system. This book offers readers a progressive, radical and academic provocation of that system; it also proposes a field of Applied Negative Dialectics. In Reimagining Capitalism, Atkinson confronts the need to rethink capitalism and presents an integrated range of thinking through a lens of applied negative dialectics, questioning how and why things might have occurred, and where and how we might begin to improve them. Author Biography David Atkinson is the author of Thinking the Art of Management (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), based on his multi-award-winning PhD research in critical management studies. David is presently a part-time lecturer in management and organisation at York St John University and a founding member of the universitys Futures and Foresight Research Group. As a lecturer at postgraduate and undergraduate level, his subjects have most recently covered Business, Creativity and Opportunism, Industrial Economics, Labour Economics, Entrepreneurship and Society and Mastering Strategic Consulting. David is openly autistic and is currently the founder of a technology start-up for the neurodiverse community. In his largely self-funded, independent academic writing, he uses critical management thinking to develop provocations grounded in the philosophy of immanent critique. Also qualified as a Chartered Engineer and European Engineer, David combines his academic insight with over 40 years of enterprising socio-economic practice, from public sector behemoths to small, award-winning start-ups in various market sectors. It is the wide range of personal experiences that David can draw on that provides a rich seem of (auto)ethnographic inspiration for his (often) reflective style of writing. This is coupled with an openly autistic mindset to explore and provoke critique from unexpected angles, while maintaining a necessary academic rigour. Review David has written an exhilarating, imaginative and deliberately provocative invitation to reimagine capitalism. It is necessary and essential. Drawing deeply from his own journey, he presents a method to engage in future story-telling to confront our accepted wisdoms. If you believe that we cannot go on as we are, or as Bob Dylan once sang, There must be some way out of here, then Davids carefully argued route is to work with his Critical Counterfactual Futures Method to apply negative dialectics to allow imaginations to emerge. We can then talk about our futures together. We need to do this and quickly - as Dylan also sang, ...The hour is getting late. Prof. Jeffrey GoldOrganisation Learning at Leeds Business SchoolLeeds Beckett UniversityThe quality of scholarship demonstrated by "Reimagining Capitalism: Applying Negative Dialectics for a Better Future" is impeccable, yet balanced to provide a curious reader with a wide breadth of material and concomitant incentives to investigate beyond the noetic and referential range of this book. The originality of the work is its raison dtre, in the sense that, as a unique contribution to social philosophy rooted in a dynamic application of negative dialectics, the author posits a generative methodology of applied negative dialectics within enterprise studies. As such, the work will also appeal to various scholarly and novice audiences of philosophy, futures studies, and theoretical political science. The likely impact is intrinsic to the sentiment upheld in the title of the book: "...for a better future." As stated by the author, the books "sole aim is a provocation-suggesting a transitionary path from neoliberal capitalism, purposive work and autopoietic enterprise, to an emergent postcapitalism via a Design Capitalism, purposeful work, and aesthetically poietic enterprise". The social objectives of the book are vast and diachronic, yet the central message of the book is directed to the individual - like a whisper resonating within and between the text - to find strength of purpose where perhaps none was seen before, and to direct that strength to rhythmically engage the other to build a more positive and purposeful society. The book provides multiple interdisciplinary pathways for other scholars and thinkers to build upon its concepts and tease out additional implications for society and those who willingly dance to its future.Dr Marcel LamoureuxStaffordshire University Details ISBN1648898807 Author David M. Atkinson Pages 455 Publisher Vernon Press Series Series in Economics Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781648898808 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-02-05 Imprint Vernon Press Place of Publication Delaware Country of Publication United States DEWEY 330.122 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly US Release Date 2024-02-05 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:158703916;
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