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 (9780817947422_vii.pdf ~54 KB)
• Introduction (9780817947422_xv.pdf ~49 KB)
• Part One: The Organizational Cycle (9780817947422_1.pdf ~54 KB)
• 1. The Race for Size, 1870–1960 (9780817947422_9.pdf ~145 KB)
• 2. The Political Consequences of Heirarchy (9780817947422_47.pdf ~115 KB)
• 3. The Decentralizing Revolution, 1968–1989 (9780817947422_73.pdf ~142 KB)
• 4. The Return of the Individual (9780817947422_109.pdf ~95 KB)
• Part Two: The Fundamental Question (9780817947422_127.pdf ~98 KB)
• 5. The Organizational Choice (9780817947422_143.pdf ~392 KB)
• 6. The Decisive Role of Information (9780817947422_201.pdf ~219 KB)
• 7. The System of Nation-States (9780817947422_265.pdf ~129 KB)
• 8. The Industry of States and the Society of Nations (9780817947422_293.pdf ~163 KB)
• Conclusion: The Rationale of History (9780817947422_335.pdf ~109 KB)
• Afterward: The Future of Terrorism, or The Dark Side of Freedom (9780817947422_359.pdf ~50 KB)
• Bibliography (9780817947422_363.pdf ~80 KB)
• Index (9780817947422_377.pdf ~79 KB)