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Looking ahead to the next century, the editor of Reason magazine predicts a conflict between advocates of bureaucracy and the status quo and advocates of competition and choice, who will drive progress in technology, business, and the arts. 50,000 first printing.

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Virginia Postrel smashes conventional political boundaries in this libertarian manifesto. World-views should be defined not by how they view the present, she says, but the future. Do they aim to control it, as many conservative reactionaries and liberal planners want to do? Or do they embrace it, even though they can't know what lies ahead? Postrel (editor of Reason magazine) firmly places herself in this latter category--the dynamists, she calls her happy tribe--and urges the rest of us to sign up. The future of economic prosperity, technological progress, and cultural innovation depends upon embracing principles of choice and competition. The downside of this philosophy, Postrel readily notes, is that it doesn't allow us to manage tomorrow by acting today. And that's exactly the point: we shouldn't want to. A future constructed by an infinite number of individual decisions, made privately, is one she believes we should encourage. The Future and Its Enemies is at once intellectually sweeping and reader-friendly; it has the potential to join a pantheon of books about freedom that includes works by Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman. --John J. Miller
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Virginia Postrel is the editor of Reason magazine, a columnist for Forbes and its companion technology magazine, Forbes ASAP, and a contributing editor for the online political magazine IntellectualCapital.com. Her work appears frequently in the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, and other major publications. She lives in Los Angeles.

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  • PublisherFree Press
  • Publication date1998
  • ISBN 10 0684827603
  • ISBN 13 9780684827605
  • BindingHardcover
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  • Number of pages288
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