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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One: Efficiency Vs. Entropy: The Dialectic of Modernity -- 1. Masks, Ventilators, and Toilet Paper: How Adaptivity Trumps Efficiency -- 2. Taylorism and the Laws of Thermodynamics -- 3. The Real World: Nature's Capital -- Part Two: Propertizing the Earth and Pauperizing the Workforce -- 4. The Great Disruption: The Planetary Enclosure of Time and Space -- 5. The Ultimate Heist: Commodifying the Earth's Spheres, Gene Pool, and Electromagnetic Spectrum -- 6. The Catch-22 of Capitalism: Increased Efficiency, Fewer Workers, and More Consumer Debt -- Part Three: How We Got Here: Rethinking Evolution on Earth -- 7. The Ecological Self: We Are Each a Dissipative Pattern -- 8. A New Origin Story: The Biological Clocks and Electromagnetic Fields That Help Synchronize and Shape Life -- 9. Beyond the Scientific Method: Complex Adaptive Social/Ecological Systems Modeling -- Part Four: The Age of Resilience: The Passing of the Industrial Era -- 10. The Resilient Revolution Infrastructure -- 11. The Ascendance of Bioregional Governance -- 12. Representative Democracy Makes Way for Distributed Peerocracy -- 13. The Rise of Biophilia Consciousness -- Acknowledgments -- Notes.
The capitalist era is passing. Rising in its wake is a new global collaborative Commons that will transform our way of life. Jeremy Rifkin explains that intense competition is forcing the introduction of ever newer technologies, in turn boosting productivity to the point where the marginal cost of producing additional units is nearly zero
In: Fischer-Taschenbücher 16970
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Long description: Rifkin analysiert die gesellschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Umwälzungen in gewohnter Schärfe und entwirft ein eindrucksvolles Bild der Access-Gesellschaft: Aus Märkten werden Netzwerke, wir streben nicht mehr nach Eigentum, sondern nach Verfügbarkeit. Ein neuer Kapitalismus entwickelt sich, kulturelle Ressourcen werden in käufliche Erlebnisse verwandelt. Doch Rifkin sieht auch die Risiken. Unsere zentrale Aufgabe wird es sein, das Gleichgewicht zwischen Kultur und Kommerz neu zu finden.
In: Fischer-Taschenbücher 16029
In: Paidós Estado y Sociedad 123
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