{"product_id":"three-faces-of-power-9780803938625","title":"Three Faces of Power","description":"\u003cp\u003eThree Faces of Power offers the best of Kenneth Boulding: bold  innovative perspectives on past and present concepts. His creative analysis lays the groundwork for important future debates about power. Boulding explains that power can be divided into three major categories: threat power; economic power; and integrative power. Turning general deterrence theory on its head  he argues that the greatest error is to regard threat power as fundamental  for it is not effective unless it is reinforced by economic and integrative power. His conclusion has wide-ranging application to everything from the nuclear weapons debate to intimate personal relationships. Power. The word alone evokes images of great empires  of human misery  of personal triumphs and failures. Yet power has been--and continues to be--one of the most misunderstood concepts known to mankind. Now  in a fascinating new volume  Kenneth Boulding marshalls his remarkable intellectual talents to explore and analyze the nature of power. Three Faces of Power offers the best of Kenneth Boulding: bold  innovative perspectives on past and present concepts. His creative analysis lays the groundwork for important future debates about power. Boulding explains that power can be divided into three major categories: o Threat power  destructive in nature and applied particularly to political life. o Economic power  resting largely on the power to produce and exchange items--and on the constantly changing distribution of property ownership. o Integrative power  based on such relationships as legitimacy  respect  affection  love  community  and identity. Turning general deterrence theory on its head  Boulding argues that the greatest error is to regard threat power as fundamental  for it is not effective unless it is reinforced by economic and integrative power. His conclusion has wide-ranging application to everything from the nuclear weapons debate to intimate personal relationships. Three Faces of Power provides a refreshingly optimistic and challenging call to a world future secured through the power of human interaction and knowledge. It will prove essential reading for students and academics in all areas of the social sciences  especially peace studies  political science  sociology  family studies  communication  organizational studies  social psychology  and international relations. \"With deft strokes of wit and delightfully apt analogies Boulding shares his profound insights into the most important component of human relations--power; its manifestations in brutal exploitation  in give and take relations among equals  and in mutually nurturing cooperating human beings. Bouldings inimitable charm shines through the plain language of common experience on every page of this book for everyone.\" --Anatol Rapoport  University of Toronto \"Original  as always.\" --Future Survey \"This book is vintage Boulding. Few people writing today in social science  much less in economics  give evidence of the broad erudition which Boulding invariably displays. He chooses examples of the points he wishes to make with breathtaking leaps through history and culture. The reader who dips into this book by Boulding is in for a challenging and thought-provoking experience.\" --The Journal of Economic Issues \"Innovative and fascinating.\" --The Futurist \"This is an immensely charming book  easily readable  written in a plain  almost folksy prose-style....It glides effortlessly over its topic.\" --Organization Studies \"The value of reading this book is that of personal discovery. Besides the many glittering economic ideas and suggestions lying about like diamonds in a field  his essay provokes self-knowledge. You as an economist will know a lot more about yourself and the failures and successes of your profession after reading this book.\" --American Journal of Agricultural Economics \"Three Faces of Power is Kenneth Bouldings innovative and thought-provoking study of power  in which he categorically rejects the traditional importance of threat (destructive) power. Instead  he offers a bold  new thesis: It is integrative power that is the most dominant and significant form of power  in the sense that neither threat power nor economic power can achieve very much in the absence of legitimacy  which is one of the more important aspects of integrative power. . . . Well written and provocative  Three Faces of Power is both scholarly and down to earth. Undeniably  Three Faces of Power will stimulate much discussion about power  but  equally important  it is an eloquent plea for peace.\" --International Journal on World Peace\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651847118901,"sku":"ByrdShop_0803938624","price":114.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780803938625.jpg?v=1781842119","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/three-faces-of-power-9780803938625","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}