The future of capitalism: How today's economic forces shape tomorrow's world - Thurow,LR

Technology and ideology are shaking the foundations of twenty-first century capitalism. Technology is making skills and knowledge the only sources of sustainable strategic advantage. Abetted by the electronic media, ideology is moving toward a radical form of short-run individual consumption maximization at precisely a time when economic success will depend upon the willingness and ability to make long-run social investments in skills, education, knowledge and infrastructure. When technology and ideology start moving apart, the only question is when will the ''big one'' (the earthquake that rocks the system) occur. Paradoxically, at precisely the time when capitalism finds itself with no social competitors-its former competitors, socialism and communism, having died-it will have to undergo a profound metamorphosis.