{"product_id":"9780792391579","title":"From Catastrophe to Chaos: A General Theory of Economic Discontinuities (1991. 416 S. 235 mm)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Now, however, weface an Age of Discontinuity in world economy and tech- nology. We might succeed in making it an age of great economic growth as weil. But the one thing that is certain so far is that it will be a period of change-in technology and in economic policy, in industry structures and in economic theo- ry, in the knowledge needed to govern and manage, and in economic issues. While we have been busy finishing the great nineteenth-century economic ed- ijice, the foundations have shifted beneath our feet.\" Peter F. Drucker, 1968 The A~e Qf DiscQntinuity, p. 10 This project has had a lQng gestatiQn period, probably ultimately dating to a YQuthful QbsessiQn with watershed divides and bQundaries. My awareness Qf the problem Qf discQntinuity in eCQnQmics dates tQ my first enCQunter with the capi- tal theQry paradQxes in the late 1960s, the fruits Qf which can be seen in Chapter 8 Qf this book. This awareness led tQ a frostratiQn Qver the apparent lack Qf a mathematics Qf discQntinuity, a lack that was in the process of rapidly being QverCQme at that time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SPRINGER, BERLIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48674133508331,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":311.28,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9780792391579-1.jpg?v=1781638028","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9780792391579","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}