The Second Curve: Thoughts on Reinventing Society

Handy, Charles

ISBN 10: 1847941346 / ISBN 13: 9781847941343

Published by Random House Business, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Second Curve: Thoughts on Reinventing Society
• Publisher: Random House Business
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847941346
• ISBN 13: 9781847941343
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Like New
• Weight: 1050 grams

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Synopsis

Charles Handy builds on a life's work to glimpse into the future and see what challenges and opportunities lie ahead. He looks at current trends in capitalism and asks whether it is a sustainable system. He explores the dangers of a society built on credit. He challenges the myth that remorseless growth is essential. He even asks whether we should rethink our roles in life—as students, parents, workers and voters—and what the aims of an ideal society of the future should be. Provocative and thoughtful, he sets out the questions we all need to ask ourselves—and points us in the direction of some of the answers.

About the Author

Charles Handy is an independent writer, broadcaster and teacher. He has been an oil executive, an economist, a professor at the London Business School, the Warden of St. George's House in Windsor Castle and the chairman of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce. He was educated in Ireland, England (Oxford University) and the U.S. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). His many books include The Elephant and the Flea, Gods of Management, Myself and Other Important Matters, and Waiting for the Mountain to Move.