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knowledge, wealth, and violence at the edge of the 21st century

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Powershift

knowledge, wealth, and violence at the edge of the 21st century

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Publisher
Bantam Books
Language
English
Pages
611

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Cover of: Da wei lai
Da wei lai
1993, Ren min Zhongguo chu ban she
in Chinese - Di 1 ban
Cover of: Powershift
Powershift: knowledge, wealth, and violence at the edge of the 21st century
1991, Bantam Books
in English - Paperback ed.
Cover of: Les nouveaux pouvoirs
Cover of: Powershift
Cover of: Powershift
Powershift: knowledge, wealth, and violence in the 21st century
1990, Bantam Books
Cover of: Powershift

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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 471-501) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
303.4
Library of Congress
HN17.5 .T6417 1991,

The Physical Object

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xxii, 611 p. ;
Number of pages
611

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OL18328730M
ISBN 10
0553292153
Library Thing
65326
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