From industrial to post-industrial society: theories of social development -- From goods to services: the changing shape of the economy -- The dimensions of knowledge and technology: the new class structure of post-industrial society -- The subordination of the corporation: the tension between the economizing and sociologizing modes -- Social choice and social planning: the adequacy of our concepts and tools -- "Who will rule?" Politicians and technocrats in the post-industrial society -- Coda: An agenda for the future: How social systems change; the future of science; meritocracy and equality; the end of scarcity; culture and consciousness