The Zero Marginal Cost Society
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The Zero Marginal Cost Society examines how the shift to an extremely interconnected world is making the core values and institutions upon which we've based our lives, including private property, representative democracy, and national boundaries, obsolete,...
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The Zero Marginal Cost Society examines how the shift to an extremely interconnected world is making the core values and institutions upon which we've based our lives, including private property, representative democracy, and national boundaries, obsolete, and looks to the new values and institutions that will propel the next great economic era.
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The capitalist era is passing - not quickly, but inevitably. Rising in its wake is a new global collaborative Commons that will fundamentally transform our way of life. Ironically, capitalism's demise is not coming at the hands of hostile external forces. Rather, The Zero Marginal Cost Society argues, capitalism is a victim of its own success. Intense competition across sectors of the economy is forcing the introduction of ever newer technologies. Bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin explains that this competition is boosting productivity to its optimal point where the marginal cost of producing additional units is nearly zero, which makes the product essentially free. In turn, profits are drying up, property ownership is becoming meaningless, and an economy based on scarcity is giving way to an economy of abundance, changing the very nature of society.Rifkin describes how hundreds of millions of people are already transferring parts of their economic lives from capitalist markets to global networked Commons. "Prosumers" are producing their own information, entertainment, green energy, and 3-D printed products at nearly zero marginal cost, and sharing them via social media sites, rentals, redistribution clubs, bartering networks, and cooperatives. Meanwhile, students are enrolling in massive open online courses (MOOCs) that also operate at near-zero marginal cost. And young social entrepreneurs are establishing ecologically sensitive businesses, crowdsourcing capital, and even creating alternative currencies in the new sharable economy. As a result, "exchange value" in the marketplace - long the bedrock of our economy - is increasingly being replaced by "use value" on the collaborative Commons.
In this new era, identity is less bound to what one owns and more to what one shares. Cooperation replaces self-interest, access trumps ownership, and networking drubs autonomy. Rifkin concludes that while capitalism will be with us for at least the next half century,albeit in
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an increasingly diminished role, it will no longer be the dominant paradigm. We are, Rifkin says, entering a world beyond markets where we are learning how to live together collaboratively and sustainably in an increasingly interdependent global Commons.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Zero Marginal Cost Society “
1. The Great Paradigm Shift from Capitalism to Collaboratism PART I: THE UNTOLD HISTORY OF CAPITALISM 2. The European Enclosures and the Birth of the Market Economy 3. The Courtship of Capitalism and Economies of Scale 4. Human Nature Through a Capitalist Lens PART II: THE NEAR ZERO MARGINAL COST SOCIETY5. The Exponential Race to a Free Economy 6. 3D Printing: From Mass Production to Production by the Masses 7. MOOCs and a Zero Marginal Cost Education 8. The Birth of the Prosumer PART III: THE RISE OF THE COLLABORATIVE COMMONS9. The Comedy of the Commons 10. The Collabortists Prepare for Battle 11. The Struggle to Define and Control the Intelligent Infrastructure PART IV: SOCIAL CAPITAL AND THE SHARING ECONOMY12. The Transformation from Ownership to Access 13. Crowdsourcing Capital, Democratizing Currency, and Humanizing Entrepreneurship PART V: THE ECONOMY OF ABUNDANCE 14. Sustaining Abundance 15. The Three Wilds Cards of the Apocalypse 16. A Biosphere Lifestyle Afterward: A Personal Note
Autoren-Porträt von Jeremy Rifkin
Jeremy Rifkin, geboren 1945, ist Gründer und Vorsitzender der "Foundation on Economic Trends" in Washington. Mit seinen zeitkritischen Büchern bringt er die großen gesellschaftlichen, politischen und ökonomischen Trends auf den Punkt. Sein Bestseller "Das Ende der Arbeit" wurde in sechzehn Sprachen übersetzt und löste internationale Debatten aus. Nicht minder bekannt ist Rifkin für seine kritischen Thesen zur Biotechnologie. In den USA gilt er als einer der bekanntesten und gefürchtetsten politischen Journalisten. Jeremy Rifkin ist als Regierungsberater tätig und unterrichtet an der renommierten Wharton School.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jeremy Rifkin
- 2014, 356 Seiten, Maße: 15,8 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Macmillan Education
- ISBN-10: 1137278463
- ISBN-13: 9781137278463
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.2014
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Englisch
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