CONTENTS:

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

1. From industrial to post-industrial society: Theories of social development

2. From goods to services: the chamging shape of the economy

3. The dimenssions of knowledge and technology: The new class strucutre of post-industrial society

4. The subordination of the corporation: the tension between the economizing and sociologizing modes

5. Social choice and social planning: the adequacy of our concepts and tools

6. "Who will rule?" Poloticians and technocrats in the post-industrial society

Coda
An agenda for the future
1. How social systems change
2. The future of science
3. Meritocracy and equality
4. The end of scarcity?
5. Culture and consiousness