The Fourth Economy: Inventing Western Civilization by Ron Davison (2011)

The premise of this book, The Fourth Economy by Ron Davison, is that a fourth entrepreneurial economy is emerging. This will be as different from the information economy as the industrial economy before it.

Last century we popularized knowledge work, transforming from an industrial economy dependent on child labor to an information economy dependent on adult education.

This century we will popularize entrepreneurship, changing what it means to be an employee.

Since medieval times, the West has been defined by agricultural, industrial, and information economies.

These three economies have transformed religion, politics, and finance. An emerging entrepreneurial economy promises to transform business.

Perhaps the most interesting prediction is that social invention will be as common for the next generation as technological invention became in the last century.

Credit: Adapted from Amazon

Resources

• Download the introduction and three sample chapters
• The Fourth Economy and The Future of Work

 
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•  Knowledge Revolutions The evolution of knowledge

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