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Politics, Volume 3 - Plasticity into Power : Comparative-Historical Studies on the Institutional Conditions of Economic and Military Success, Paperback / softback Book

Politics, Volume 3 - Plasticity into Power : Comparative-Historical Studies on the Institutional Conditions of Economic and Military Success Paperback / softback

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Plasticity into Power works out, through historical examples, a major theme of Unger's work-the relation between institutional and organizational flexibility and the development of our collective ability to produce or to destroy.

The message of the book is that the practical success of a society depends on its capacity for permanent innovation.

Certain practices and institutions-the history and content of which Unger explores-can nurture this capacity. Unger pursues this topic through wide-ranging historical inquiries into the European escape from the recurring crises that foreclosed political and economic breakthroughs in the great empires of the past; the invention of revolutionary approaches to the governmental protection of wealth; and the social conditions of military success, viewed as sources of insight into the social foundations of economic growth.

Throughout, Plasticity into Power exemplifies a conception of the relation between theory and history that remains faithful to the surprising, open-ended quality of lived experience.

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