The problem of this book is as follows: I am going to assume the general conception of a social revolution which I have just briefly stated. I am going to assume further (though not without evidence to back up this assumption) that the present is in fact a period of social revolution, of transition from one type of society to another. With the help of these assumptions, I shall present a theory—which I call “the theory of the managerial revolution”—which is able to explain this transition and to predict the type of society in which the transition will eventuate. To present this theory is the
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