The Second Twentieth Century: How the Information Revolution Shapes Business, States, and Nations
By Jean-Jacques Rosa

The worldwide wave of democratization and the nearly total disappearance of communism at the end of the twentieth century were major economic and political changes of our time. These earth-shaking changes lead us to raise the question, Why now? Why did these developments occur as they did, when they did? Jean-Jacques Rosa shows how the transformation in communication and information technology has led to the downfall of twentieth century political and corporate hierarchies and is a driving force behind today’s democratic free-market trend.

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• Forward by Dennis L. Bark
• Introduction
• Part One: The Organizational Cycle
• 1. The Race for Size, 1870–1960
• 2. The Political Consequences of Heirarchy
• 3. The Decentralizing Revolution, 1968–1989
• 4. The Return of the Individual
• Part Two: The Fundamental Question
• 5. The Organizational Choice
• 6. The Decisive Role of Information
• 7. The System of Nation-States
• 8. The Industry of States and the Society of Nations
• Conclusion: The Rationale of History
• Afterward: The Future of Terrorism, or The Dark Side of Freedom
• Bibliography
• Index