The Inglorious Years: The Collapse of the Industrial Order and the Rise of Digital Society
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The Inglorious Years: The Collapse of the Industrial Order and the Rise of Digital Society
By (Author) Daniel Cohen
Translated by Jane Marie Todd
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
15th July 2021
22nd June 2021
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Media studies: internet, digital media and society
Algorithms and data structures
Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship
303.44
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Hardback
192
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
Description
How populism is fueled by the demise of the industrial order and the emergence of a new digital society ruled by algorithms In the revolutionary excitement of the 1960s, young people around the world called for a radical shift away from the old industrial order, imagining a future of technological liberation and unfettered prosperity. Industrial
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Author Bio
Daniel Cohen is director of the Economics Department at the cole Normale Suprieure and founding member of the Paris School of Economics. His books include The Infinite Desire for Growth (Princeton), Globalization and Its Enemies, and The Prosperity of Vice: A Worried View of Economics. He lives in Paris.
