Lester C. Thurow is is a professor of economics and former dean
of MIT's Sloan School of Management. Thurow is recognized throughout
the world as a leading expert on economic issues. Since the
publication of The Zero-Sum Society, he has been an important shaping
voice in the creation of political platforms and national economic
policy in the United States. He has been a contributing editor to
Newsweek and a member of the editorial board of The New York Times.
[Scientific Practice] examines small-scale
experiment in physics in order to look closely at the relationship
between theory and practice. The contributors focus on interactions
among the people materials and ideas involved in experiments. The
first half of the book explores central issuesïthe resources
deployed by theoreticians and experimenters the boundaries that
constrain theory and practice, the limits of objectivity, the
reproducibility of results and the intentions of researchers in
chapters by Peter Galison, Andrew Pickering Hens Radder. Brian
Baigrie, and Yves Gingras. The seoond half is devoted to historical
case studies of the practice of physics from the early nineteenth to
the early twentieth century. These chapters address failed as well as
successful experimental work ranging from Victorian astronomy through
Hertz's investigation of cathode rays to Trouton's attempt to harness
the ether. Contributors: to this section ara Jed Z. Buchwald, Giora
Hon, Margaret Morrison, Simon Schaffer and Andrew Warwick.
Ian Hacking's introduction develops and assesses the
relationships among the arguments of the chapters. This volume is
poised to become a significant resource on the nature and impact of
small-scale experiment in physics. It is essential for everyone
interested in the interplay between scientific theory and practice.
In his previous New York Times best-seller Head to Head, Lester
C. Thurow described an economic war among the world players surviving
the cold war period and showed us how the United States could emerge a
winner. Now, with the end of communism, and with the world's major
powers all pursuing the same economic system, he helps us see what
capitalism has become and where it is going.
According to Thurow, we are living in a period of great
economic change, when various factors are playing off each other and
radically altering the world. But these changes also make for an
exciting time, ripe with enormous opportunities for those equipped to
take advantage of the of the storms ahead. In The Future of
Capitalism, he examines the major forces causing economic
disequilibrium and charts a course for porfiting from today's world in
flux.
Like the shifting plates of the earth's surface, world changes
influence the economic game with nearly imperceptible movements that
have enormous effects in the long term. In geology, entire continents
are created and lost through the plates' activity. Keeping with
Thurow's provocative analogy, the magnitude of the following changes
-- the "economic plates"-- cannot be ignored:
- The conversion of the Communist world to capitalism
- The rise of man-made brainpower industries
- Changing demographics
- A truly global economy
- Lack of a dominant political or military world leader
