Beyond Tomorrow, A Rational Utopia
| Title | Beyond Tomorrow, A Rational Utopia |
| Year for Search | 1986 |
| Authors | Beckwith, Burnham P[utnam] Ph.D.(b. 1904) |
| Publisher | B. P. Beckwith |
| Place Published | Palo Alto, CA |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | Detailed eutopia set in Los Angeles 500 years in the future. World federal government of thirteen countries. New language. Government by experts, no government worker can earn more than twice as much as the average worker. Monetary incentives to perform better or take on certain jobs common. |
| Info Notes | See also his The Case for Liberal Socialism. 3rd enl. ed. Hicksville, NY: Exposition Press, 1976. The first two editions were published as The Modern Case for Socialism. By John Putnam [pseud.]. Boston, MA: Meador Publishing Co., 1943 and 1946. The author says that he used a pseudonym to protect himself from losing his government job, and that when he published The Economic Theory of a Socialist Economy. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1949 under his own name, he lost his job and has been unemployed since then. His Liberal Socialism Applied: The Applied Welfare Economic of a Liberal Socialist Economy. Palo Alto, CA: B.P. Beckwith, 1978 is an exp. ed. of The Economic Theory that he calls the 2nd vol. of his Liberal Socialism, the Pure Welfare Economics of a Liberal Socialist Economy. Jericho, NY: Exposition Press, 1974. In addition, see his Government by Experts: The Next Stage in Political Evolution. New York: Exposition Press, 1972; Free Goods: The Theory of Free or Communist Distribution. Palo Alto, CA: B.P. Beckwith, 1976; and Socialist Essays, From Individualism to Socialism. Palo Alto, CA: B.P. Beckwith, 1980. |
| Holding Institutions | TxU |
| Author Note | The author's Ph.D. was in Economics from the University of Southern California (b. 1904). |
| Full Text | 1986 Beckwith, Burnham P[utnam], Ph.D. (b. 1904). Beyond Tomorrow, A Rational Utopia. Detailed eutopia set in Los Angeles 500 years in the future. World federal government of thirteen countries. New language. Government by experts, no government worker can earn more than twice as much as the average worker. Monetary incentives to perform better or take on certain jobs common. See also his The Case for Liberal Socialism. 3rd enl. ed. Hicksville, NY: Exposition Press, 1976. The first two editions were published as The Modern Case for Socialism. By John Putnam [pseud.]. Boston, MA: Meador Publishing Co., 1943 and 1946. The author says that he used a pseudonym to protect himself from losing his government job, and that when he published The Economic Theory of a Socialist Economy. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1949 under his own name, he lost his job and has been unemployed since then. His Liberal Socialism Applied: The Applied Welfare Economic of a Liberal Socialist Economy. Palo Alto, CA: B.P. Beckwith, 1978 is an exp. ed. of The Economic Theory that he calls the 2nd vol. of his Liberal Socialism, the Pure Welfare Economics of a Liberal Socialist Economy. Jericho, NY: Exposition Press, 1974. In addition, see his Government by Experts: The Next Stage in Political Evolution. New York: Exposition Press, 1972; Free Goods: The Theory of Free or Communist Distribution. Palo Alto, CA: B.P. Beckwith, 1976; and Socialist Essays, From Individualism to Socialism. Palo Alto, CA: B.P. Beckwith, 1980. The author’s Ph.D. was in Economics from the University of Southern California. |
