End of millennium

Oxford ; Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. "Manuel Castells concludes the Information Age trilogy by considering the i ntersection of the global network society and factional project identities. As always, the scope of Castell's argument is far-ranging. Among the subje cts addressed are the collapse of the Soviet Union; the potential emergence of the Asian Pacific as the next region of major world power; and the rapi dly increasing growth of a "Fourth World"--A series of "black holes of info rmational capitalism" (areas that have been cut off from the flow of wealth and information in the global economy) that refuses to confine itself to n ational borders--as likely to appear in the American inner city as it is in sub-Saharan Africa. He also raises the specter of a "global criminal econo my," a dark counterpart to transnational corporations, and suggests that tr ends such as fascination with gangster movies "may well indicate the cultur al breakdown of traditional moral order, and the implicit recognition of a new society, made up of communal identity and unruly competition." End of M illennium is perhaps the most accessible of Castell's three volumes, expert ly reading the pulse of late-20th-century social trends. It's bound to prov oke debate about any efforts to shape the trends of the 21st century."--htt p://www. (April 12, 2011) Includes bibliographical references (pages 394-426) and index A Time of Change ----1. The Crisis of Industrial Statism and the Collapse of the Soviet Union. The Extensive Model of Economic Gr.