Revolutionary Wealth: How It Will Be Created and How It Will Change Our Lives - Softcover

Toffler, Alvin; Toffler, Heidi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 038552207X ISBN 13: 9780385522076

Publisher: Crown Currency, 2007

Synopsis

Since the mid-1960s, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have predicted the far-reaching impact of emerging technological, economic, and social developments on our businesses, governments, families, and daily lives. In REVOLUTIONARY WEALTH, they once again demonstrate their unparalleled ability to illuminate current trends and anticipate what they mean for the future.

REVOLUTIONARY WEALTH focuses on how wealth will be created--and who will get it--in the twenty-first century. As the knowledge-based economy (a reality the Tofflers predicted forty years ago) continues to replace the industrial-based economy, they argue, money is no longer the sole determinate of wealth. The Tofflers explain that we are becoming a nation of "prosumers," consuming what we ourselves produce, and argue that we have all taken on "third jobs"--work we unwittingly do without pay for some of the biggest corporations in the country. Using fascinating examples from our daily lives, they illustrate how our everyday activities--from parenting and volunteering to blogging, painting our houses, and improving our diets--contribute to a non-monetary economy that is largely hidden from economists. Writing with the same insight and clarity that made their earlier books bestsellers, the Tofflers present fresh, groundbreaking new ways of thinking about wealth.

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Review

"In Future Shock, the Tofflers warned that many people 'will find it increasingly painful to keep up with the incessant demand for change that characterizes our time....These days, from Baghdad to Bangalore to Boston, it seems more likely that people worry that the future will arrive too late. That's no small change, and it's one on which the Tofflers have been shining a light for years." --The New York Times Book Review

"Alvin and Heidi Toffler...show no signs of losing touch with the bleeding edge or slowing down. Their book is loaded with bits of intelligence." --USA TODAY

About the Author

ALVIN TOFFLER and HEIDI TOFFLER advise companies and governments worldwide on advances in economics, technology, and social change. They are the authors of such classics as Future Shock, The Third Wave, Powershift, and War and Anti-War. They write and lecture widely and their monthly column appears in major newspapers around the world. They live in Los Angeles, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Crown Currency
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 038552207X
• ISBN 13: 9780385522076
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512