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Powershift : Knowledge, wealth and violence at the edge of the 21st Century

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Publication details: London Bantham Books 1991Description: 611p xviiISBN:
  • 9780553292152
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.400000 TOF
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Contents:
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.
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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.