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The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age Paperback – August 26, 1999

by James Dale Davidson (Author), William Rees-Mogg (Author)

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Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century. The Sovereign Individual details strategies necessary for adapting financially to the next phase of Western civilization.
Few observers of the late twentieth century have their fingers so presciently on the pulse of the global political and economic realignment ushering in the new millennium as do James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg. Their bold prediction of disaster on Wall Street in Blood in the Streets was borne out by Black Tuesday. In their ensuing bestsellar, The Great Reckoning, published just weeks before the coup attempt against Gorbachev, they analyzed the pending collapse of the Soviet Union and foretold the civil war in Yugoslavia and other events that have proved to be among the most searing developments of the past few years.
In The Sovereign Individual, Davidson and Rees-Mogg explore the greatest economic and political transition in centuries -- the shift from an industrial to an information-based society. This transition, which they have termed "the fourth stage of human society," will liberate individuals as never before, irrevocably altering the power of government. This outstanding book will replace false hopes and fictions with new understanding and clarified values.

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George Grant World If [Davidson and Rees-Mogg's] amazing track record for sheer prescience holds true, this may be their most revolutionary book yet....This disturbing book will stimulate your thinking, broaden your horizons, and illumine your conversations for quite some time to come. And just maybe it will provide the impetus necessary for you to get out of debt, set our financial house in order, and prepare for the uncertain days ahead.

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James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg edit Strategic Investment, one of the world's more widely circulated private investment letters. Davidson is a venture capitalist and entrepreneur, with investments in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, and New Zealand, as well as high-tech projects in North America. Rees-Mogg was formerly editor of The Times of London and vice chairman of the BBC. He is a director of the Private Bank of London. Together they authored Blood in the Streets: Investment Profits in a World Gone Mad and The Great Reckoning.

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Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: Touchstone; 1St Edition edition (August 26, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0684832720
ISBN-13: 978-0684832722
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.3 x 8.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 75 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #63,099 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #69 in Books > Business & Money > Economics > Development & Growth
- #103 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics & Government > Specific Topics > Political Economy
- #211 in Books > Business & Money > Economics > Economic Conditions

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This book was written in '97 and it's calling out major technological distruptions going on today! It's astonishing.

November 15, 2017

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These dudes (the authors) called out Osama Bin Laden in '97 as a threat to nation states. He basically called out cryptocurrencies (not how they work, but that they'll arise). Incredible that they could see forward that clearly.

Also, the questions they ask that others don't ask is perhaps the most valuable aspect of reading this book. They engage the role of violence as central to why we have the political paradigms we have. No one really bothers to realize how central violence is to how human societies organize themselves. It's very insightful.

Thanks for writing this, gents. I don't agree with everything in the book of course, but your style of question asking, and the models you present are tremendous.

If you do pick this up, you will struggle through the first chapter. Heads up.

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One of the most thought-provoking reads I've had in a ...

December 12, 2016

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One of the most thought-provoking reads I've had in a long time. This + Why Nations Fail has given me an entirely new perspective and way of thinking about the nation state.

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They told us so.

January 7, 2016

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Read it twice. The predictions seem to be shaping up, albeit slower than I had hoped. But then all predictions that I have ever read do not come as quickly as predicted. or hoped.
The alternative news sources here in 2015 carry predictions of their own that seem to be borrowed from this book.

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Robert H. Stine Jr.

Cyberpunk future

September 7, 2008

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This is a very interesting book with disturbing implications: the authors contend that, in our lifetimes we will see the messy demise of nation states, with the most advanced of the Western democracies falling the farthest and hardest. The grim future they depict is essentially that of Stephenson's "Snow Crash" or Gibson's "Neuromancer".

In making their case, the authors draw an interesting and convincing parallel between today's concepts of patriotism and national duty, and the Church in late medieval Europe.

I'd fault the book for its hyped up rhetoric and excessive repetition of the same historical factoids. Also, the dire predictions of this 1997 book are somewhat undermined by the predictions of the scope of the Y2K computer failures, and also by the odd depiction of Peruvian ex-dictator Fujimori as the wave of the future.

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I've read all of the books by Davidson and Rees-Mogg, and was pleasantly surprised by their latest effort. The thing that's particularly inspiring about this book is the opportunity to consider futures that are not promoted by typical pundits and "experts." It's refreshing to be able to not only have an alternate view, but also to be able to review the research that has gone into the analysis, which enables one to see how the model being presented was developed. Even if reality does not show up exactly as presented, it's certainly thought-provoking.

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Colin R Thomson

I recommend it.

September 24, 2018

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Execellent which gives relevance to the times we are now living in. I recommend it.

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February 20, 2006

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This is the best book I've ever read on economics, politics and history (I don't know exactly which category to put it in). I didn't really like the first 3 chapters, because it was filled with unsupported, somewhat incredible forecasts of changing forms of sovereignty. But by chapter 4 or 5 they started supporting their claims with historical information and I was mesmerized.

The authors claim that the information age is radically transforming sovereignty and restructuring or dissolving "nationhood". It is doing this by transcending the "tyranny of place". When all you need is a laptop computer and an internet connection to earn your income, you can live anywhere (especially if it's a satellite internet connection). You might choose to move to a place where the services provided by government are worth the taxes you pay. If that is the case, then governments, rather than seeing their high talent, high income citizens flee, will start competing for them by lowering taxes and perhaps dismantling the welfare state. That's the general idea, but the authors do a much better job of explaining it than I do. This is one of the most important books that I've read in the last ten years.

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