First UK edition. 8vo. xvi, 301, [1] pp. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket (faint offsetting to front endpapers, contents otherwise clean and unmarked; light shelf wear to jacket with a few tiny nicks to extremities, otherwise a very good copy). London, Heinemann, 1976.
An important work by the American sociologist Daniel Bell, best-known for popularising the concept of the post-industrial as the emergence of the service economy and the importance of knowledge for creating stratification in the new society, a shift from the ‘economics of goods’ to the ‘economics of information’.
