Economy and Nostalgia

Economy and Nostalgia

Michael Piore and Charles Sabel have written a book that is both enormously insightful and deeply irritating. These two qualities are so tightly intertwined that it is not a question of directing readers to the good parts and warning them against the bad; there is no alternative but to take the bitter and the sweet together.

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