Bestselling social critic Jeremy Rifkin shows that the disconnection between our vision for the world and our ability … economy -- Cosmopolitan Rome and the rise of urban Christianity -- The soft industrial revolution of the late medieval era and … the birth of humanism -- Ideological thinking in a modern market economy -- Psychological consciousness in a postmodern …

”.-Chapter 4: “Political Economy”: The making of a North/South planet -- Chapter 5: Self, Socialisation, Organisation, Culture …This book provides a crosscutting interdisciplinary account of how the disintegrated, global subsistence economy circa … major findings from economics, history/historiography, and sociology (as well as from anthropology, psychology, politics …