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Dewey Decimal Number: 303.490905 EAN: 9780812920888 ISBN: 0812920880 Label: Three Rivers Press Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 105 Publication Date: September 29, 1992 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Release Date: September 29, 1992 Studio: Three Rivers Press Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Jacques Attali, French President Mitterand's most trusted advisor and president of the new European bank of Reconstruction and development, offers a provocative and all-too-convincing view of the future in an increasingly troubled world. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Prophetic - it now appears.I read this book as soon as it came out and was very impressed, especially because his ideas of rich and poor "nomads" was born out in my own experience. As early as the late 70's I was meeting Koreans who had worked for engineering companies in Iraq, probably as low paid labour. One of their chaplains had come straight from expulsion by the Ayatollahs there to study in the post-graduate programme I was teaching. Then I noted the low paid horde that had been stranded in Kuweit after the Gulf ... Read More Rating:  - Even less correct now than in 1991.Attali's intriguing thesis--the microchip will allow for a reshuffling of the world geopolitical power structure and promote the growth and social dominance of "nomadic men" with few ties to place or fellow man--is consistently undermined, and eventually rendered ineffective, by three problems: A pervasive and thinly disguised national chauvinism; Grossly inaccurate macroeconomic forecasting; and A pendantic and condescending Foreward by Alvin Toffler which ... Read More 
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