The Sovereign Individual Mastering the Transition to the Information Age By James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg

The Sovereign Individual Mastering the Transition to the Information Age By James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg

ISBN 10: 1439144737

ISBN 13: 9781439144732

Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century The Sovereign Individual details strategies necessary for adapting financially to the next phase of Western civilization Few observers of the late twentieth century have their fingers so presciently on the pulse of the global political and economic realignment ushering in the new millennium as do James Dale Davidson and Lord William ReesMogg Their bold prediction of disaster on Wall Street in Blood in the Streets was borne out by Black Tuesday In their ensuing bestsellar, The Great Reckoning, published just weeks before the coup attempt against Gorbachev, they analyzed the pending collapse of the Soviet Union and foretold the civil war in Yugoslavia and other events that have proved to be among the most searing developments of the past few years In The Sovereign Individual, Davidson and ReesMogg explore the greatest economic and political transition in centuries the shift from an industrial to an informationbased society This transition, which they have termed the fourth stage of human society, will liberate individuals as never before, irrevocably altering the power of government This outstanding book will replace false hopes and fictions with new understanding and clarified values From Publishers Weekly The computer revolution, in the authors dire scenario, will subvert and destroy the nationstate as globalized cybercommerce, lubricated by cybercurrency, drastically limits governments powers to tax They further predict that the next millennium will see an enormous decline in the influence of politicians, lobbyists, labor unions and regulated professions as new information technologies democratize talent and innovation and decentralize the workplace In their forecast, citizenship will become obsolete new forms of sovereignty reminiscent of medieval merchant republics will spring up electronic plebiscites will decide legislative proposals mafias, renegade covert agencies and criminal gangs will exercise much more behindthescenes power Davidson and ReesMogg, who publish Strategic Investment, a financial newsletter, present an apocalyptic exercise that is unconvincing Appendices offer advice to Sovereign Individuals members of the information elite on how to invest, find tax shelters, avoid criminals and list ones business on the World Wide Web Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc From Library Journal Following up their equally visionary Blood in the Streets LJ 5187 and The Great Reckoning S S, 1993, the authors offer a sweeping analysis of the implications, especially financial, of the information age According to Jupiter Communications, a r