Howard Brick is Professor of History and Louis Evans Chair in U.S. History at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He is the author of Age of Contradiction: American Thought and Culture in the 1960s, also from Cornell, and Daniel Bell and the Decline of Intellectual Radicalism: Social Theory and Political Reconciliation in the 1940s.

• Introduction. To Name a New Society in the Making1. Capitalism and Its Future on the Eve of World War I2. The American Theory of Organized Capitalism3. The Interwar Critique of Competitive Individualism4. Talcott Parsons and the Evanescence of Capitalism5. The Displacement of Economy in an Age of Plenty6. The Heyday of Dynamic Sociology7. The Great ReversalConclusion. On Transitional Developments beyond CapitalismNotesIndex

Brick asks thinkers from Marx to Radcliffe-Brown to Reisman to Talcott Parsons a single question: What can you tell us about what a postcapitalist society might be like as such a society appears to be emerging? An impressive scholarly effort. Highly recommended.(Choice) Howard Brick's Transcending Capitalism is a bold and penetrating analysis of modern social thought in the twentieth-century United States.(Journal of American History) Where most historians of the social sciences study the social sciences one at a time, Brick... links intellectual movements within sociology to those in cultural anthropology, political science, social psychology, and particularly economics.... Transcending Capitalism is a rich and imaginative historical argument, one from which sociologists will learn much about a major intellectual current in the development of their field.(American Journal of Sociology)

Howard Brick is Professor of History and Louis Evans Chair in U.S. History at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He is the author of Age of Contradiction: American Thought and Culture in the 1960s, also from Cornell, and Daniel Bell and the Decline of Intellectual Radicalism: Social Theory and Political Reconciliation in the 1940s.

• Introduction. To Name a New Society in the Making1. Capitalism and Its Future on the Eve of World War I2. The American Theory of Organized Capitalism3. The Interwar Critique of Competitive Individualism4. Talcott Parsons and the Evanescence of Capitalism5. The Displacement of Economy in an Age of Plenty6. The Heyday of Dynamic Sociology7. The Great ReversalConclusion. On Transitional Developments beyond CapitalismNotesIndex

Brick asks thinkers from Marx to Radcliffe-Brown to Reisman to Talcott Parsons a single question: What can you tell us about what a postcapitalist society might be like as such a society appears to be emerging? An impressive scholarly effort. Highly recommended.(Choice) Howard Brick's Transcending Capitalism is a bold and penetrating analysis of modern social thought in the twentieth-century United States.(Journal of American History) Where most historians of the social sciences study the social sciences one at a time, Brick... links intellectual movements within sociology to those in cultural anthropology, political science, social psychology, and particularly economics.... Transcending Capitalism is a rich and imaginative historical argument, one from which sociologists will learn much about a major intellectual current in the development of their field.(American Journal of Sociology)

Howard Brick is Professor of History and Louis Evans Chair in U.S. History at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He is the author of Age of Contradiction: American Thought and Culture in the 1960s, also from Cornell, and Daniel Bell and the Decline of Intellectual Radicalism: Social Theory and Political Reconciliation in the 1940s.

• Introduction. To Name a New Society in the Making1. Capitalism and Its Future on the Eve of World War I2. The American Theory of Organized Capitalism3. The Interwar Critique of Competitive Individualism4. Talcott Parsons and the Evanescence of Capitalism5. The Displacement of Economy in an Age of Plenty6. The Heyday of Dynamic Sociology7. The Great ReversalConclusion. On Transitional Developments beyond CapitalismNotesIndex

Brick asks thinkers from Marx to Radcliffe-Brown to Reisman to Talcott Parsons a single question: What can you tell us about what a postcapitalist society might be like as such a society appears to be emerging? An impressive scholarly effort. Highly recommended.(Choice) Howard Brick's Transcending Capitalism is a bold and penetrating analysis of modern social thought in the twentieth-century United States.(Journal of American History) Where most historians of the social sciences study the social sciences one at a time, Brick... links intellectual movements within sociology to those in cultural anthropology, political science, social psychology, and particularly economics.... Transcending Capitalism is a rich and imaginative historical argument, one from which sociologists will learn much about a major intellectual current in the development of their field.(American Journal of Sociology)