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What happened yesterday in the West is today being repeated on a global scale.Industrial society is replacing rural society: millions of peasants in China, India, and elsewhereare leaving the countryside and going to the city. New powers are emerging and rivalries areexacerbated as competition increases for control of raw materials. Contrary to what believers in the"clash of civilizations" maintain, the great risk of the twenty-first century is not aconfrontation between cultures but a repetition of history. In The Prosperity ofVice, the influential French economist Daniel Cohen shows that violence, rather thanpeace, has been the historical accompaniment to prosperity. Peace in Europe came only after thebarbaric wars of the twentieth century, not as the outcome of economic growth. What will happen thistime for today's eagerly Westernizing emerging nations? Cohen guides us through history, describingthe European discovery of the "philosopher's stone": the possibility of perpetual growth.But the consequences of addiction to growth are dire in an era of globalization. If a billionChinese consume a billion cars, the future of the planet is threatened. But, Cohen points out, thereis another kind of globalization: the immaterial globalization enabled by the Internet. It is stillpossible, he argues, that the cyber-world will create a new awareness of global solidarity. It evenmay help us accomplish a formidable cognitive task, as immense as that realized during theIndustrial Revolution--one that would allow us learn to live within the limits of a solitaryplanet.
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Daniel Cohen is Professor of Economics at the Ecole Normale Superieure and the Universite de Paris-I. A member of the Council of Economic Analysis of the French Prime Minister, he is the author of The Wealth of the World and the Poverty of Nations, Our Modern Times: The Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age, Globalization and Its Enemies, and Three Lectures on Post-Industrial Society, all published by the MIT Press.
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