Capitalism, Complexity, and Inequality

摘要

Under capitalism there is a potential for increasing socioeconomic complexity and greater specialization of skills. One implication is that there is a potential for increasing inequalities of wealth, income, and power on both a national and international scale. What follows is an updated, broad-brush account of possible future developments in a knowledge-intensive capitalist economy. They can themselves be manifest in different ways, in a number of quite different institutional frameworks (Hodgson 2001).