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The Triumph of the Flexible Society - The Connectivity Revolution and Resistance to Change (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R1,803
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The Triumph of the Flexible Society - The Connectivity Revolution and Resistance to Change (Hardcover, New): Manuel Hinds

The Triumph of the Flexible Society - The Connectivity Revolution and Resistance to Change (Hardcover, New)

Manuel Hinds

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Hinds takes offers a fresh perspective on the social, political, and economic disturbances now affecting our world. This book looks at those disturbances not as separate problems, but rather as the coherent symptoms of a deep technological revolution that is changing the shape of society on the scale of the Industrial Revolution: the Connectivity Revolution, the basis of the New Economy. Analyzing the resistance to change that erupted violently in response to that last major economic upheaval, Hinds shows how Communism, Nazism, and fundamentalism owe their triumphs not to the prevalence of poverty or oppression but to the rigidity of societies threatened by profound social changes prompted by rapid technological progress. Demonstrating that their rigidity was caused by the same kind of state intervention in the economy that is now being proposed to stop globalization, he argues persuasively that only a horizontal, flexible society can smoothly manage change in such a way that the pain of transformation--and therefore, the risk of giving birth to new varieties of destructive regimes--is minimized.

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Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin: United States
Release date: November 2003
First published: November 2003
Authors: Manuel Hinds
Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 224
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-98128-0
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General
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LSN: 0-275-98128-2
Barcode: 9780275981280

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