Author | Jeremy Rifkin |
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Language | English |
Subject | Energy, Economics |
Genre | Non-fiction |
Publisher | Palgrave MacMillan |
Publication date
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2011 |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
Pages | 270 |
ISBN |
The Third Industrial Revolution; How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World is a book by Jeremy Rifkin published in 2011. The premise of the book is that fundamental economic change occurs when new communication technologies converge with new energy regimes, mainly, renewable electricity.
The book has been on the New York Times Best Seller List and has been translated into 19 languages. By 2013, 400,000 copies were in print in China alone. Rifkin has been interviewed on NPR.