Towards the next economics and other essays

As a manager today, you operate in the center of a storm of profound social changes that are dramatically altering the relationships between the economy, business, politics, and consumers. Making sense of all this change and managing in the midst of it-requires a framing perspective that goes beyond the here and now to assess how we got here and where we're going.

Peter F. Drucker's Toward the Next Economics and Other Essays, reissued as part of Harvard Business Press's Drucker Library Series, provides that perspective. This concise, provocative volume brings together twelve of Drucker's most prescient essays-as relevant now as when they were written between 1972 and 1980-on the subject of social upheaval and its impact on the workings of organizations from governments to corporations to nonprofit agencies.

Addressing a diverse range of topics from the workings of the global economy to retirement policies to environmental challenges, Drucker's predictions have proven both startlingly accurate and highly significant to today's leaders and managers. Should governments set economic policy? Can business really solve the environmental crisis? Will "retirement" give way to "second careers"? What are the real reasons behind Japan's economic success? How should the role and function of today's boards of directors change? How do technological advances impact the manager's role?
Packed with sage advice from the world's most trusted management thinker, Toward the Next Economics and Other Essays will help managers and leaders around the world better understand, and manage, the complex challenges they face in our volatile world.