The Politics of Uncertainty

by Peter Marris

In The Politics of Uncertainty Peter Marris examines one of the most crucial and least studied aspects of social how we manage uncertainty, from the child's struggle for secure attachment to the competitive strategies of multinational corporations. Using a powerful synthesis of social and psychological theory, he shows how strategies of competition interact with the individual's sense of personal agency to place the heaviest burden of uncertainty on those with the fewest social and economic resources. He argues that these strategies maximize uncertainty for everyone by undermining the reciprocity essential to successful economic and social relationships.
At a time when global economic reorganisation is undermining security of employment, The Politics of Uncertainty makes a convincing case for strategies of co-operation at both personal and political levels to ensure our economic and social survival in the twenty-first century.

200 pages, Paperback

First published June 13, 1996

Reviews

[Stephen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well, well, well. I read this book in my first semester of graduate school. And I am currently a little more than half-way finished with "A Brief History of Neo-Liberalism" by David Harvey. I was looking at/trying to organize some books and I came across this one by Marris. I sat down to look through it and read some of the passages highlighted with pink highlighter. Both books emphasis how we as a society no longer are motivated by the commonweal. And as Jane Jacobs wrote - Dark Age Ahead. Not ahead friends, it is here.