The sovereign individual : mastering the transition to the information age / James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg.

New York, NY : Touchstone, 1999.

1 online resource (446 pages)

1st Touchstone ed.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-422) and index.

Transition of the year 2000: the fourth stage of human society -- Megapolitical transformations in historic perspective -- East of Eden: the agricultural revolution and the sophistication of violence -- Last days of politics: parallels between the senile decline of the holy mother church and the nanny state -- Life and death of the nation-state: democracy and nationalism as resource strategies in the age of violence -- Megapolitics of the information age: the triumph of efficiency over power -- Transcending locality: the emergence of the cybereconomy -- End of egalitarian economics: the revolution in earnings capacity in a world without jobs -- Nationalism, reaction, and the new luddites -- Twilight of democracy -- Morality and crime in the "natural economy" of the information age.