End of millennium
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End of millennium
（The information age : economy, society and culture, v. 3）
Blackwell Publishers, 1998
- : hbk
- : pbk
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End of millennium / Manuel Castells
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End of millennium / Manuel Castells
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Bibliography: p. [363]-393
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The final volume of a trilogy, this title is devoted to processes of global social change induced by interaction between networks and identity. The author studies empirically the collapse of the Soviet Union, tracing it back to the incapacity of industrial statism to manage the transition to the information age. He shows the rise of inequality, polarization and social exclusion throughout the world, focusing on Africa, on urban poverty and on children's plight. Manuel Castells documents the formation of a global criminal economy that deeply affects economies and politics in many countries. He analyzes the political and cultural foundations of the emergence of the Asian Pacific as the most dynamic region in the global economy. And he reflects on the contradictions of European unification, proposing the concept of the network state. In the general conclusion of the trilogy, included in this volume, Castells draws together the threads of his arguments and his findings, presenting a systematic interpretation of the world at this end of the millennium.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements. A Time of Change. 1. The Crisis of Industrial Statism and the Collapse of the Soviet Union. 2. The Rise of the Fourth World: Informational Capitalism, Poverty, and Social Exclusion. 3. The Perverse Connection: The Global Criminal Economy. 4. Towards the Pacific Era? The Multicultural Foundation of Economic Interdependence. 5. The Unification of Europe: Globalization, Identity, and the Network State. Conclusion: Making Sense of our World. Index.
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