- Looking through my recent blog posts, I was surprised to discover that I haven't blogged a review of Heckscher and Adler's The Firm as a Collaborative Community: Reconstructing Trust in the Knowledge Economy
, which I read a month or so back. I'll try to post a review soon.
- I'm finishing Toffler and Toffler's Revolutionary Wealth: How it will be created and how it will change our lives
and will blog it soon.
- I'll also read Toffler's Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century
, which I believe will complete their oeuvre.
- Finally, I'm planning to review a fourth activity theory collection, van Oers et al.'s The Transformation of Learning: Perspectives from Activity Theory
.
After that? We'll see.
many thanks for all these reviews, clay. i continue to enjoy and appreciate them.
ReplyDeletei've long wondered what was in my unread copy of alinski's book. now i have a good idea. and now he reminds me of nixon, unfortunately.
your series on the tofflers' writings keeps reminding me how much of their work i liked. one point they made, as you note, was that the growing divide in america was not between left and right, but between second and third wavers. perhaps this applies to the "tippies" (tea-party, town-hall, etc. folks).
there's more to the story of toffler's odd involvement with gingrich. it took me a moment to backtrack, but i think this is what i recall: a magna carta for the information age co-authored by toffler and other leading lights (dyson, gilder) at gingrich's behest, posted at
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45/062.html
i'm looking forward to your review of adler and heckscher. i posted about one of their papers months ago, but not the book as a whole. since then, posters associated with the p2p blog (michel bauwens, tom haskins) have taken an interest in their book. after my post, adler emailed me saying he and heckscher would do a new paper with a four-part framework, superceding their three-part. but i've no update on this.
Thanks for the link to the "Magna Charta." Should be interesting reading. I'm working through Powershift right now, entirely out of order, I'm afraid.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I thought of you immediately when reading the Adler and Heckscher piece, then later saw that you had already blogged about it! Will retrieve the book tomorrow and see what I can do to review it. Actually, I'm nearly positive that I wrote a review - and misplaced it. So it goes. Glad to hear they're doing more work on the framework! At some point, once I've cleared the decks and absorb some more literature, hopefully I can synthesize a framework article of my own.