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The nineteenth-century German philosopher, Friedrich Hegel, observed that the strengths that build great nations invariably become obsessions which eventually destroy them. In America and Britain we have argued that the dominant response to the transformation of social and economic life has been to return to the first principles of western capitalism based on market individualism. The argument of this book is that such a position is unsustainable given the social and economic challenges of the twenty-first century. The fundamental tasks confronting nations are those of providing the conditions which will enable their citizens to develop the collective intelligence required to meet an economic and social environment which demands ever smarter people.
We are floundering, both in practice and in analysis, because we no longer know what holds a society together.
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Brown, P., Lauder, H. (2001). The Learning State. In: Capitalism and Social Progress. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333985380_14
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