Tocqueville Revisited : The Meaning of American Prosperity  

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Handy, Charles

Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Harvard Business Review bisa di lihat di link (http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/command/detail?sid=f227f0b4-7315-44a4-a7f7-a7cd8cbad80b%40sessionmgr114&vid=12&hid=105&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=bth&jid=HBR) vol. 79 no. 1 (2001), page 57-65.
Topik: meaning; business & society; business history; business philosophy; group behaviour; leadership; new economy; psychology; religion & business; social issues; values

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Why is business so admired in the United States and so often denigrated in Europe ? How has America created 30 million new jobs in the last 20 years while the European Union, with a bigger population, only managed 5 million ? What is feeding America's apparently inexhaustible appetite for growth and its recent dramatic improvements in productivity ? In 1831, French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville came to America to examine its prison system and returned with a vision of democracy so profound it has become part of our cultural heritage. More than a century and a half later, renowned British business philosopher Charles Handy retraces Tocqueville's intellectual journey, this time focusing not on democracy but on capitalism. The result is an eye - opening look at some of the fundamental assumptions underpinning business in America today. It is America's optimism that Handy finds most striking, the unquestioned belief that tomorrow can - and should - be made better than today. The energy engendered by American optimism, coupled with the Puritan belief in work and in the nobility of earned wealth lies, in Handy's view, at the heart of America's success. Will American capitalism, born as it was from a property - owning democracy, now adapt to a dematerialized world, where property is intellectual rather than physical ? Handy lays out the challenges that must be overcome for tomorrow to indeed continue to be better than today in this still - young country.

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