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    Revolution or Renaissance: Making the Transition from an Economic Age to a Cultural Age
    Revolution or Renaissance: Making the Transition from an Economic Age to a Cultural Age
    Revolution or Renaissance: Making the Transition from an Economic Age to a Cultural Age
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    Revolution or Renaissance: Making the Transition from an Economic Age to a Cultural Age

    By D. Paul Schafer

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    In Revolution or Renaissance, D. Paul Schafer subjects two of the most powerful forces in the world – economics and culture – to a detailed and historically sensitive analysis. He argues that the economic age has produced a great deal of wealth and unleashed tremendous productive power; however, it is not capable of coming to grips with the problems threatening human and non-human life on this planet. After tracing the evolution of the economic age from the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations in 1776 to the present, he turns his attention to culture, examining it both as a concept and as a reality. What emerges is a portrait of the world system of the future where culture is the central focus of development. According to Schafer, making the transition from an economic age to a cultural age is imperative if global harmony, environmental sustainability, economic viability, and human well-being are to be achieved.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Ottawa Press
    Release dateApr 29, 2008
    ISBN9780776617732
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      This book is divided into two sections, the age of economics and the age of culture. Schafer, who was originally an economic historian, covers the age of economics with insightful scholarship, concluding that the age has provided humankind with important advances in productivity, science and technology. The age has also however had devastatingly harmful environmental consequences, including global warming, depletion of natural resources and overpopulation. For Shafer, the solution is to end the age of economics and begin an age of culture, a new Renaissance, which would focus human activity on the broadly defined arts, sports, and other fulfilling noneconomic activities. Schafer's book is a worthwhile theoretical contribution to a growing literature that advocates cessation of economic growth in favor of human development in noneconomic realms. A chapter or two including practical ideas for advancing a cultural Renaissance would make this fine book even better.

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