Perelman's strength is that his overview is historical as well as social.
Mark, I would add that this seems to be the strenth of everything Michael
writes, e.g., The End of Economics
Best,
Rakesh
At 05:50 p.m. 3/21/98 +1100, Rob wrote:
... There's an inbuilt crunch in all this, but one senses bad years lie
before us as capitalism insists on chasing down those errant externalities
until all is capital and nothing anything else.
there's an asymmetry here: capitalists try mightily to
Good review, Mark! You've sold one.
And congratulations, Michael. I agree with every word Mark says you say -
the commodification of information may yet attain undreamed-of proportions,
I think. The citizen has become the consumer, democracy the market,
uncodified information codified and
Michael Perelman's new book, Class Warfare in the Information Age has
come to hand. It fills an important need as a corrective
to the now almost universal Net-hype.
Net-hype ranges a broad spectrum from the pompous (and often vacuous)
theorising of Manuel Castells (Tony Blair's favourite
