Management, Drucker P F

El autor analiza lo que será la nueva sociedad, fijando su atención en cinco dimensiones:
- las nuevas condiciones demográficas,
- la nueva fuerza de trabajo,
- la paradoja de la manufactura,
- la supervivencia de las corporaciones y
- el camino por delante.

While this book is now over 30 years old it is perceptive and speaks to our present times. It consists of chapters, published separately in periodicals and covers overviews of contrasting economists views of labor, management . However, from the perspective of our present meltdown the most imortant chapter is "The Changed World Economy" which states manufacturing jobs have declined in number as agriculture did earlier and we now have a "symbol" not a "real" economy. Thirty years ago there was a major trade deficit problem for the US. What Drucker warns against is countries running into protectionism. What is different from today is he writes about the strengtth of the Japanese and hardly mentions mainland China.