Jeremy Rifkin

Argues that the Internet of Things, which is making goods and services essentially free due to a nearly zero marginal cost, is causing corporate profits to dry up, property rights to weaken, and the mindset of scarcity to give away to the possibility of abundance.

The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism

The Zero Marginal Cost Society

"We are undergoing a historical transformation in the way we create and disseminate energy. Together, Internet technology and the reality of renewable energy are creating a new type of electrical grid, one in which energy is stored and distributed on an individual basis. Soon, hundreds of millions of human beings will be generating their own green energy in their homes, offices and factories, and sharing it, just as they now create their own information and share it on the Internet. In just a few years, millions of buildings and even cities will become energy self-sufficient, signaling the end of our reliance on fossil fuels. This transformation is already underway in Europe, where author Jeremy Rifkin serves as EU advisor on a project that will revolutionize the continent's energy supply, with Asia to follow. We even see shades of it in Texas, Colorado, and California, where electrical companies will be laying down parts of the Smart Grid over the next several years. But it's not just about the promise of clean energy. Rather, this "Energy Internet" will fundamentally change every aspect of the way we work and live. It will foster continental markets and the creation of continental political unions to oversee new expansive commercial opportunities. It will signify the end of needless wars fought over energy sources, and the dawning of an era of true international cooperation. Finally, it offers the hope that we can get to a post-carbon era by mid century and avert catastrophic climate change. Here, Rifkin explains how the United States can embrace this ambitious vision of the future, end its decades-old crisis over foreign oil, and ensure its continued status as world power. He also paints an accessible, anecdotal picture of what our lives will look like in this new global order-if we can summon the political will to join it"--

How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World

The Third Industrial Revolution

In this sweeping new interpretation of the history of civilization, bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin looks at the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development-and is likely to determine our fate as a species. Today we face unparalleled challenges in an energy-intensive and interconnected world that will demand an unprecedented level of mutual understanding among diverse peoples and nations. Do we have the capacity and collective will to come together in a way that will enable us to cope with the great challenges of our time? In this remarkable book Jeremy Rifkin tells the dramatic story of the extension of human empathy from the rise of the first great theological civilizations, to the ideological age that dominated the 18th and 19th centuries, the psychological era that characterized much of the 20th century and the emerging dramaturgical period of the 21st century. The result is a new social tapestry-The Empathic Civilization-woven from a wide range of fields. Rifkin argues that at the very core of the human story is the paradoxical relationship between empathy and entropy. At various times in history new energy regimes have converged with new communication revolutions, creating ever more complex societies that heightened empathic sensitivity and expanded human consciousness. But these increasingly complicated milieus require extensive energy use and speed us toward resource depletion. The irony is that our growing empathic awareness has been made possible by an ever-greater consumption of the Earth's resources, resulting in a dramatic deterioration of the health of the planet. If we are to avert a catastrophic destruction of the Earth's ecosystems, the collapse of the global economy and the possible extinction of the human race, we will need to change human consciousness itself-and in less than a generation. Rifkin challenges us to address what may be the most important question facing humanity today: Can we achieve global empathy in time to avoid the collapse of civilization and save the planet? One of the most popular social thinkers of our time, Jeremy Rifkin is the bestselling author of The European Dream, The Hydrogen Economy¸ The End of Work, The Biotech Century, and The Age of Access. He is the president of the Foundation on Economic Trends in Washington, D.C.

The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis

The Empathic Civilization

An urgent plan to confront climate change, transform the American economy, and create a green post-fossil fuel culture. A new vision for America’s future is quickly gaining momentum. Facing a global emergency, a younger generation is spearheading a national conversation around a Green New Deal and setting the agenda for a bold political movement with the potential to revolutionize society. Millennials, the largest voting bloc in the country, are now leading on the issue of climate change. While the Green New Deal has become a lightning rod in the political sphere, there is a parallel movement emerging within the business community that will shake the very foundation of the global economy in coming years. Key sectors of the economy are fast-decoupling from fossil fuels in favor of ever cheaper solar and wind energies and the new business opportunities and employment that accompany them. New studies are sounding the alarm that trillions of dollars in stranded fossil fuel assets could create a carbon bubble likely to burst by 2028, causing the collapse of the fossil fuel civilization. The marketplace is speaking, and governments will need to adapt if they are to survive and prosper. In The Green New Deal, New York Times bestselling author and renowned economic theorist Jeremy Rifkin delivers the political narrative and economic plan for the Green New Deal that we need at this critical moment in history. The concurrence of a stranded fossil fuel assets bubble and a green political vision opens up the possibility of a massive shift to a post-carbon ecological era, in time to prevent a temperature rise that will tip us over the edge into runaway climate change. With twenty-five years of experience implementing Green New Deal–style transitions for both the European Union and the People’s Republic of China, Rifkin offers his vision for how to transform the global economy and save life on Earth.

Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth

The Green New Deal

Examines the changes in American business, and shows how accessing experiences is the key to power in business.

The New Culture of Hypercapitalism, where All of Life is a Paid-for Experience

The Age of Access

A sweeping new interpretation of the history of civilization and a transformative vision of how our species will thrive on an unpredictable Earth. The viruses keep coming, the climate is warming, and the Earth is rewilding. Our human family has no playbook to address the mayhem unfolding around us. If there is a change to reckon with, argues the renowned economic and social theorist Jeremy Rifkin, it’s that we are beginning to realize that the human race never had dominion over the Earth and that nature is far more formidable than we thought, while our species seems much smaller and less significant in the bigger picture of life on Earth, undermining our long-cherished worldview. The Age of Progress, once considered sacrosanct, is on a deathwatch while a powerful new narrative, the Age of Resilience, is ascending. In The Age of Resilience, Rifkin takes us on a new journey beginning with how we reconceptualize time and navigate space. During the Age of Progress, efficiency was the gold standard for organizing time, locking our species into the quest to optimize the expropriation, commodification, and consumption of the Earth’s bounty, at ever-greater speeds and in ever-shrinking time intervals, with the objective of increasing the opulence of human society, but at the expense of the depletion of nature. Space, observes Rifkin, became synonymous with passive natural resources, while a principal role of government and the economy was to manage nature as property. This long adhered to temporal-spatial orientation, writes Rifkin, has taken humanity to the commanding heights as the dominant species on Earth and to the ruin of the natural world. In the emerging era, says Rifkin, efficiency is giving way to adaptivity as the all-encompassing temporal value while space is perceived as animated, self-organizing, and fluid. A younger generation, in turn, is pivoting from growth to flourishing, finance capital to ecological capital, productivity to regenerativity, Gross Domestic Product to Quality of Life Indicators, hyper-consumption to eco-stewardship, globalization to glocalization, geopolitics to biosphere politics, nation-state sovereignty to bioregional governance, and representative democracy to citizen assemblies and distributed peerocracy. Future generations, suggests Rifkin, will likely experience existence less as objects and structures and more as patterns and processes and come to understand that each of us is literally an ecosystem made up of the microorganisms and elements that comprise the hydrosphere, lithosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere. The autonomous self of the Age of Progress is giving way to the ecological self of the Age of Resilience. The now worn scientific method that underwrote the Age of Progress is also falling by the wayside, making room for a new approach to science called Complex Adaptive Systems modeling. Likewise, detached reason is losing cachet while empathy and biophilia become the norm. At a moment when the human family is deeply despairing of the future, Rifkin gives us a window into a promising new world and a radically different future that can bring us back into nature’s fold, giving life a second chance to flourish on Earth.

Reimagining Existence on a Rewilding Earth

The Age of Resilience

The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture (Plume)

Beyond Beef

الثورة الصناعية الثالثة

An analysis of the potentially catastrophic implications of the growing worldwide unemployment crisis explains how we can avoid economic collapse, create conditions for a new, more humane social order, and redefine the role of the individual in the new society.

The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-market Era

The End of Work

Rifkin reflexiona sobre el cambio social, económico y político que se está produciendo como consecuencia de las nuevas tecnogías. La aparición de un sistema económico nuevo, el procomún colaborativo, está transformando la manera de organizar nuestra vida económica ofreciendo la posibilidad de democratizar la economía mundial, reducir la diferencia de los ingresos y crear una sociedad más sostenible desde el punto de vista ecológico.

el internet de las cosas, el procomún colaborativo y el eclipse del capitalismo

La sociedad de coste marginal cero

Em Sociedade com custo marginal zero, Jeremy Rifkin argumenta que a era do capitalismo está saindo lentamente do palco mundial. O surgimento da Internet das coisas tem levado à ascensão de um novo sistema econômico - os bens comuns colaborativos - que está transformando nosso modo de vida. Neste livro, Rifkin explica como a Internet das Comunicações, da Energia e dos Transportes está convergindo para criar uma rede neural global, conectando tudo a todos na Internet das Coisas. Essa estrutura inteligente e indissolúvel do século XXI tem acelerado a produtividade e reduzido o custo marginal de produzir e distribuir unidades adicionais de bens e serviços - descontados os custos fixos - a praticamente zero, tornando-os essencialmente gratuitos. Como resultado, o lucro corporativo começa a secar, os direitos de propriedade perdem força e a noção convencional de escassez econômica dá lugar à possibilidade de abundância à medida que setores inteiros da economia ingressam na web com custo marginal zero. O desafio é garantir a segurança dos dados e a proteção do sigilo pessoal em um mundo aberto, transparente e conectado globalmente.

Sociedade com custo marginal zero

The European Dream

yanal güç, enerjiyi, ekonomiyi ve dünyayı nasıl dönüştürüyor

Üçüncü sanayi devrimi

Ediciones Paidós recupera en formato bolsillo la edición actualizada de El siglo de la biotecnología, uno de los textos más destacados del economista Jeremy Rifkin, asesor del gobierno de Zapatero. «Nuestra forma de vida –nos dice Rifkin- va a transformarse más profundamente en las próximas décadas de lo que lo hizo en los últimos años». El siglo de la biotecnología, en el que estamos entrando, nos va a tentar con una amplia gama de alimentos transgénicos y animales alterados genéticamente (eso sí, patentados por las grandes corporaciones); medicamentos maravillosos y terapias genéticas que, en teoría, producirán niños más sanos, eliminarán el sufrimiento y alargaran la vida de las personas. Pero a cada paso que damos hacia ese nuevo mundo «bioindustrial», una angustiosa pregunta nos asalta: «¿A qué precio?»

El comercio genético y el nacimiento de un mundo feliz

El siglo de la biotecnología

The best-selling author of The End of Work examines the decline of the American Dream as Americans are increasingly overworked, underpaid, and lacking time and describes its alternative as exemplified in the lifestyle of the New Europe, one that is more leisurely, healthy, prosperous, and sustainable. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

How Europe's Vision of the Future is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream

Time Wars is for anyone who has ever wondered why, in a culture so obsessed with efficiency, we seem to have so little time we can call our own. A courageous, thought-provoking challenge to conventional wisdom.

The Primary Conflict in Human History

Time Wars

Arguing that we are on the verge of a revolution of unparalleled impact, the author makes an impassioned plea for awareness of the environmental, commercial and moral implications of biotechnology. Developments in genetic engineering will have a profound effect on our lives, but at what cost?

How Genetic Commerce Will Change the World

The Biotech Century

Warum die fossil befeuerte Zivilisation um 2028 kollabiert - und ein kühner ökonomischer Plan das Leben auf der Erde retten kann

Der globale Green New Deal

Die Geschichte der Menschheit und die Zukunft unserer Spezies auf der Erde - beides zusammen muss ganz neu gedacht werden. Der Ökonom und Bestsellerautor Jeremy Rifkin zeigt, wie die Inbesitznahme der Erde und das industrielle Effizienzdenken alle Lebensbereiche durchdrungen und uns an den Rand des ökologischen Untergangs geführt haben. Nur ein radikaler Wandel unseres Selbstbildes kann uns noch retten. Neue wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse stellen dem Homo oeconomicus einen Menschen entgegen, der sich als Ökosystem begreift, sich an seine Umwelt anpasst und widerstandsfähig wird, statt die Natur auszubeuten. Rifkin liefert die übergreifende Erzählung für den politischen, wirtschaftlichen und kulturellen globalen Weg vom Zeitalter des Fortschritts zum Zeitalter der Resilienz. »Jeremy Rifkin schlägt vor, dass wir die Natur als unser Klassenzimmer betrachten und es wagen, jeden Aspekt unserer Existenz neu zu überdenken, damit das Leben auf der Erde wieder aufblühen kann. Ein Dialog, der längst überfällig ist.« Jane Goodall »Brillant – Mit ›Das Zeitalter der Resilienz‹ beweist Rifkin erneut, dass er einer der großen Vordenker unserer Zeit ist.« Sigmar Gabriel

Leben neu denken auf einer wilden Erde

Das Zeitalter der Resilienz

Ted Howard

For the first time Entropy has been completely revised and updated to include a new subtitle which reflects the expanded focus on the greenhouse effect--the largest crisis ever to face mankind.

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