The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World

by Jeremy Rifkin

Book Overview

The Industrial Revolution, powered by oil and other fossil fuels, is spiraling into a dangerous endgame. The price of gas and food are climbing, unemployment remains high, the housing market has tanked, consumer and government debt is soaring, and the recovery is slowing. Facing the prospect of a second collapse of the global economy, humanity is desperate for a sustainable economic game plan to take us into the future. Here, Jeremy Rifkin explores...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230115217
• ISBN13: 9780230115217
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 291 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"