Analyzes the upheavals caused by revolutions in technology, labor, culture, financial markets, and globalization. This author offers an analysis of the global shift to a post-industrial era. If it was once natural to speak of industrial society, he writes, it is more difficult to speak meaningfully of post-industrial society.

Demonstrates how new techniques of economic analysis can be used to study the process of regional integration.

Discusses the rising inequalities in the western world. This book explores the extent to which rising inequalities are the mechanical consequence of changes in economic fundamentals, and to what extent they are the contingent consequences of country-specific and time-specific changes in institutions.

This is an important book that fills an important niche: a careful and comprehensive report to the field on the development and possibilities of online history. -Stephen Brier, Associate Provost and Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies, Graduate Center, CUNY

Provides a provocative argument that the frustrations of globalization stem from the gap between the expectations created by media and the lagging economic reality in poor countries.