End of millennium: the information age v. III Economy, society, and culture

This final volume in Manuel Castells' trilogy studies the key defining processes taking place in the last decade of the 20th century as an expression of the crises resulting from the transition between the old industrial society and the emerging global network society. The book studies empirically the collapseof the Soviet Union, tracing it back to the incapacity of industrial statism to manage the transition to the Information Age. Castells documents how inequality, poverty and social exclusion, nationally and globally, are an inherent feature of the type of network society that emerged under the domination of global capitalism. He proposes that the rise of a global criminal economy is a fundamental development that would alter the way societies, economies, and institutions are to be understood in our time. Highlighting the growth of the AsianPacific as the most dynamic region of the world economy the author explains why China, rather than Japan, is the economic and political actor that was revolutionizing the global system. Further, he studies the European Union as the expression of a new form of political institution, the Network State. After linking the content of End of the Millennium to current developments, the new preface to this volume assesses the validity of the theoretical construction presented in the conclusion of the trilogy, proposing some conceptual modifications in light of the observed experience.Manuel Castells is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and Research Professor at the Open University of Catalonia in Barcelona. He is Distinguished Visiting Professor of Technology and Society at M.I.T., and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Internet Studies at Oxford University.He is the recipient of numerous academic awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, C. Wright Mills Award, the Robert and Helen Lynd Award from the American Sociological Association, and the Ithiel de Sola Pool Award from the American Political Science Association. He is a Fellow of the European Academy, a Fellow of the Spanish Royal Academy of Economics, and a Corresponding Fellow ofthe British Academy. He has received 14 honorary doctorates from universitiesaround the world, and has been knighted by 5 countries. He has authored 22 books, among which is the trilogy The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture, first published by Blackwell in 19968, and translated into 20 languages.

• ISBN: 978-1-4051-9688-8
• Editorial: Blackwell scientific publications
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 488
• Fecha Publicación: 05/03/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés