This 13th edition continues a long effort to tell the story of how forces in business, goverment, and society shape our world. As always, a stream of event dictated the need of extensive revision. In particular, a major financial crisis and a new presidential administration altered part of the subject matter in important ways. Accordingly, we have update the chapter to include new ideas, events, personalities, and publications.
While current event more rapidly over surface of our world, its underlying dinamics are largely indisturbed. Ads with every revision, we adapt to the flow of events, but we also continue the work of building insight into basic principles, institutions, and forces. So, while new events will doubtless erode the currency of the discussions, we beliave that curtain insight abaout the relationships between business, goverment, and society should endure.