Revolutionary Wealth: How It Will Be Created and How It Will Change Our Lives

Since the mid-1960s, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have predicted the far-reaching impact of emerging technological, economic, and social developments on our businesses, governments, families, and daily lives. In REVOLUTIONARY WEALTH, they once again demonstrate their unparalleled ability to illuminate current trends and anticipate what they mean for the future.

REVOLUTIONARY WEALTH focuses on how wealth will be created--and who will get it--in the twenty-first century. As the knowledge-based economy (a reality the Tofflers predicted forty years ago) continues to replace the industrial-based economy, they argue, money is no longer the sole determinate of wealth. The Tofflers explain that we are becoming a nation of "prosumers," consuming what we ourselves produce, and argue that we have all taken on "third jobs"--work we unwittingly do without pay for some of the biggest corporations in the country. Using fascinating examples from our daily lives, they illustrate how our everyday activities--from parenting and volunteering to blogging, painting our houses, and improving our diets--contribute to a non-monetary economy that is largely hidden from economists. Writing with the same insight and clarity that made their earlier books bestsellers, the Tofflers present fresh, groundbreaking new ways of thinking about wealth.

Author: Alvin Toffler, Heidi Toffler
Publisher: Currency
Published: 06/12/2007
Pages: 512
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.56w x 1.11d
ISBN13: 9780385522076
ISBN10: 038552207X
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Future Studies
- Business & Economics | Economics | Theory
- Business & Economics | Consumer Behavior | General

About the Author
ALVIN TOFFLER and HEIDI TOFFLER advise companies and governments worldwide on advances in economics, technology, and social change. They are the authors of such classics as Future Shock, The Third Wave, Powershift, and War and Anti-War. They write and lecture widely and their monthly column appears in major newspapers around the world. They live in Los Angeles, California.