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    The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
    The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
    The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
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    The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

    Written by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg

    Narrated by Michael David Axtell

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    Now featuring a new preface by Peter Thiel

    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 bestseller, 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJan 14, 2020
    ISBN9781797103389
    Author

    James Dale Davidson

    James Dale Davidson is a private investor and investment writer, co-writer of the newsletter Strategic Investment, and co-author with William Rees-Mogg of Blood in the Streets: Investment Profits in a World Gone Mad, and The Sovereign Individual. Davidson is also the founder and former head of the National Taxpayers Union.

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    Readers find this title to be a mind-blowing and eye-opening book that accurately predicted societal changes due to information technology. It offers smart analysis of the past and provides insights into the future. The book covers a range of topics including the impact of technology, the behavior of the super wealthy, and the shift in world economies. While some readers found it pessimistic, overall it is highly recommended for anyone looking to understand the current crisis and prosper in the coming decades.

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    • 5/5
      This book has totally blown my mind. The attempts to forecast societal change ahead due to information technology. Because this book has been written about 20 years ago, we're already into what was a future back then and what blew my mind what for the predicted developments have already happened. COVID-19 was one of them and Bitcoin&Co another. In all fairness, a number of predicted developments haven't happened or at least haven't happened just yet. Still, the book will widely open your eyes to what time we are living in and what opportunities it presents.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      A great way to zoom out of the here and now and see where we have been and are heading. This book provides an interesting peek into how the world is changing around us and the impact it will have. Raises pertinent questions about why we belong to a religion and or a nation state.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      One on the best books I’ve ever read. Highly recommend.
    • 4/5
      While an interesting dive into the history and future of the state, it presents a pessimistic view of the future. The sovereign individual already exists, they run the State. The sovereign individual is never free from the coercion of the State no matter how much wealth they accumulate.
    • 5/5
      Great book. Predicted Bitcoin, social media, woke ridiculousness and the collapse of the nation state under its own corrupt, bloated weight. Highly recommend.
    • 5/5
      Amazing this was written 25 years ago. Important read for anyone confused by the current crisis and how to prosper in the coming decades.
    • 5/5
      interesting read. It was good to read about some of the predictions and to be able to know how they went wrong but in unpredictable ways. Almost as if having knowledge of the future changed it. It got one thing right. The death of nations begins with profound corruption.
    • 5/5
      Amazing predictions. I give Ultimate respect for someone who came up with this predictions 20 years ago. I am sure so many people just laughed to this book when it’s written and they called him conspiracy theorist.
    • 4/5
      Great concepts, and eerily predicts behaviours of super wealthy, prevalence of left wing 'victimology' as well as historical grounding. Based on a mythical rational homo economicus, which lay in ruins since the study of biases and irrational behaviour. Ignores other factors (beliefs, culture, moral frameworks) which preserve democracy, despite its flaws. Not much hope for 'the losers' in the information age, but a well written and interesting read all the same.
    • 5/5
      Among few books that after listening to the audio book, makes me eager to read the printed edition too.
      Even that at start I wasn’t agreeing with the author’s predictions of the future, his analysis of the past was smart and sharp that changed my view to the future.
    • 4/5
      Great thoughts on social culture and how it's evolved mixed in with some great commentary on the shift in the world economies as a result of the information age.
      A few places where it feels like there's not enough general understanding of systemic racism and the nature of the struggle for opportunity when you're a minority . Still a great book to gain insights on a potential future where current culture and structure of nation rule isn't as essential to efficiency within global commerce.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      If you are the kind of freak who takes life advice from a Lord