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Toffler Alvin

Powershift : Knowledge, wealth and violence at the edge of the 21st Century - London Bantham Books 1991 - 611p xvii

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.



ISBN: 9780553292152

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Social History - Economic History - 19452. Power - Social Sciences3. Social Change

Dewey Class. No.: 303.400000 / TOF