Research Catalog

Title

The zero marginal cost society : the internet of things, the collaborative commons, and the eclipse of capitalism / Jeremy Rifkin.

Author

Rifkin, Jeremy.

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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Description

356 pages; 25 cm

Summary

Describes how the emerging Internet of Things is speeding us to an era of nearly free goods and services, precipitating the meteoric rise of a global Collaborative Commons and the eclipse of capitalism.

Subject

• Capitalism
• Cost
• Cooperation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-347) and index.

Contents

The great paradigm shift from market capitalism to the collaborative commons -- The European enclosures and the birth of the market economy -- The courtship of capitalism and vertical integration -- Human nature through a capitalist lens -- Extreme productivity, the internet of thing, and free energy -- 3D printing: from mass production to production by the masses -- MOOCs and a zero marginal cost education -- The last worker standing -- The ascent of the prosumer and the build-out of the smart economy -- The comedy of the commons -- The collaboratists prepare for battle -- The struggle to define and control the intelligent infrastructure -- The transformation from ownership to access -- Crowdfunding social capital, democratizing currency, humanizing entrepreneurship, and rethinking work -- The sustainable cornucopia -- A biosphere lifestyle -- Afterword: a personal note.

ISBN

• 9781137278463
• 1137278463 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2013033940
• 99959267326

OCLC

• 857356590
• ocn857356590
• SCSB-5755773

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries