The Fourth Economy: Inventing Western Civilization
The Fourth Economy: Inventing Western Civilization by Ron Davison
English | July 11, 2011 | ASIN: B005C7UUPG, ISBN: 0983823200 | AZW3 | 420 pages | 2.29 MB
English | July 11, 2011 | ASIN: B005C7UUPG, ISBN: 0983823200 | AZW3 | 420 pages | 2.29 MB
Don’t read this book unless you are in the mood for something wildly optimistic.
The Fourth Economy tells the story of Western Civilization since 1300 through a pattern of social invention and revolution, and uses that pattern to predict the big changes of the next few decades.
The emergence of each of the first three economies – the agricultural, industrial, and information economies – brought with them not only a slew of technological inventions like the steam engine and computer but social inventions like the bank and corporation. And each new economy has triggered a revolution in the dominant institution, revolutions as transformational as the Protestant and democratic revolutions.
Economic change is never just about economics.
The Fourth Economy predicts a new economy as different from the information economy we were born into as that was from the industrial economy before it.
It is a history book about your future.