| Description |
xxii, 585 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
The powershift era -- Muscle, money, and mind --Beyond the age of glitz -- Force : the Yakuza component -- Wealth : Morgan, Milken-- and after --Knowledge : a wealth of symbols -- Material-ismo! --The ultimate substitute -- The checkout battle --Extra-intelligence -- Net power -- The widening war --The executive thought police -- Total information war -- The cubbyhole crash -- The flex-firm -- Tribal chiefs and corporate commissars -- The autonomous employee -- The power-mosaic -- CODA : the new system for wealth creation -- The decisive decades -- The invisible party -- Info-tactics -- Meta-tactics -- A market for spies -- The info-agenda -- The image makers -- Subversive media -- The "screenie" generation -- CODA : yearnings for a new dark age --The global "K-factor" -- The fast and the slow --Socialism's collision with the future -- The power of balance -- Triads : Tokyo-- Berlin-- Washington -- The global gladiators -- CODA : freedom, order, and chance |
| Summary |
Describes how "a new system of wealth creation" is transforming "power at every level of society." |
| Analysis |
Behaviour |
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Leadership |
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Power (International relations) |
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Social change |
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Social class |
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Social values |
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Wealth |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-506) and index |
| Subject |
Civilization, Modern -- 1950-
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Economic history -- 1945-
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Power (Social sciences)
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Social change.
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Social history -- 1945-
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Twenty-first century -- Forecasts.
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Civilization.
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Economics.
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Forecasting.
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Information Management.
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Power (Psychology)
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Social Change.
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Social Conditions.
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Terrorism.
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| Author |
Toffler, Alvin.
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| LC no. |
90001068 |
| ISBN |
0553057766 |
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0553292153 (paperback) |
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