Jeremy
Rifkin
Author
Bio:
About Jeremy Rifkin
Jeremy Rifkin is the author of fifteen books on the impact of scientific
and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and
the environment. His books have been translated into more than twenty
languages and are used in hundreds of universities around the world. His
1995 book, The End of Work, is an international bestseller that is widely
credited with helping shape the current global debate on technology displacement,
corporate downsizing and the future of jobs. His 1998 international bestseller
The Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World addresses
the many critical issues accompanying the new era of genetic commerce
and is the most widely read book in the world on the biotech revolution.
Mr. Rifkin’s newest international bestseller, The Age of Access,
which was published in March 2000, is the third in his series on future
trends in science, technology and the global economy in the 21st century.
The book explores the vast changes occurring in the capitalist system
as it makes the transition from geographic markets to e-commerce networks
and from industrial to cultural production. The Age of Access received
two foreign book prizes, the prestigious Bruno Kreisky Award for best
political book of the year 2000 and the Fnac and Arthur Andersen’s
Business Book Prize for best essay in 2001.
Mr. Rifkin
holds a degree in economics from the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce
of the University of Pennsylvania, and a degree in international affairs
from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He
is a consultant to heads of state and government officials around the
world and speaks frequently before business, labor and civic forums. Mr.
Rifkin has lectured at more than 500 universities in some 20 countries
in the past 25 years.
Mr. Rifkin
has been a fellow at the Wharton School since 1994 where he lectures in
the executive and advanced management programs on new trends in science
and technology and their impacts on the global economy, the environment
and culture for CEOs and corporate executives from around the world.
In the mid 1970s, Mr. Rifkin's books Common Sense II and Own Your Own Job were the first to popularize the idea of worker owned and managed companies. Today, 25 years later, United Airlines and other large firms are
being bought
out by their employees, changing the way America does business.
In the 1980s, Mr. Rifkin authored Entropy, the international bestseller
that brought together environmental and economic theory for the first
time. The book helped lay the groundwork for current notions of sustainable
development.
In the mid
1990s, Mr. Rifkin’s book The End of Work ignited a worldwide debate
on the future of jobs. Mr. Rifkin’s vision of a 35 hour workweek
is credited with spurring the nationwide adoption of the 35 hour workweek
in both France and Italy. The 35 hour workweek is now spreading to other
countries and is likely to be implemented across the European Union within
the next 3 to 5 years.
In the late
1990s Mr. Rifkin published The Biotech Century. Mr. Rifkin is recognized
around the world as the leading critic of biotechnology. His organization,
The Foundation on Economic Trends, has led the global campaign opposing
genetically engineered food and has been at the forefront on a range of
biotech issues, including opposition to patents on life, human cloning
and designer babies.
In the year
2000, Mr. Rifkin’s The Age of Access spurred an international discussion
within the business community, government, and civil society on the long
term economic, cultural and political implications of shifting to a network
based business model for structuring global commerce. His book has been
cited by heads of state, CEOs and NGO leaders as a standard reference
for understanding the new dynamics of globalization.
Mr. Rifkin
has been influential in shaping public policy in the United States and
around the world. He has testified before numerous congressional committees
and has had consistent success in litigation to ensure responsible government
policies on a variety of environmental, scientific and technology related
issues. His unique perspective and social commentary have made him a frequent
guest on numerous television programs, including CNN Crossfire, Face the
Nation, ABC Nightline, MacNeil Lehrer News Hour, 20/20, Larry King Live,
Firing Line, The Today Show, and Good Morning America. He has been featured
in many of the nation's most prominent newsweeklies.
Mr. Rifkin’s
commentary on global issues appears monthly in many of the leading newspapers
and magazines around the world, including The Guardian in the U.K., Suddeutsche
Zeitung in Germany, Le Monde in France, Panorama in Italy, El Pais in
Spain, and the Los Angeles Times in the U.S.
The National
Journal, among the nation's leading public policy journals, named Rifkin
as one of 150 people in the U.S. that have the most influence in shaping
federal government policy.
Mr. Rifkin is the founder and president of the Foundation on Economic Trends in Washington, DC. The foundation examines the economic, environmental, social and cultural impacts of new technologies introduced into the global economy.
The end of work : the decline of the global labor force and the dawn of
the post-market era
Jeremy Rifkin
argues that we are entering a new phase in history - one characterized
by the steady and inevitable decline of jobs. The world, says Rifkin,
is fast polarizing into two potentially irreconcilable forces: on one
side, an information elite that controls and manages the high-tech global
economy; and on the other, the growing numbers...
Algeny
by Rifkin, Jeremy, and Perlas, Nicanor
Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture
by Rifkin, Jeremy
A brilliant and devastating examination and indictment of the cattle culture
that has come to shape and warp our world. Rifkin shows how the love affair
with beef has led to increased hunger, disease, and environmental devastation.
This persuasive book should be an urgent warning to everyone who cares
about the fate of the earth.
The
Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World
by Rifkin, Jeremy
In this seminal book, Jeremy Rifkin explores the epic marriage between
computer technology and genetic engineering, and the historic transition
into the Age of Biotechnology. Already, Rifkin explains, our economy is
undergoing a massive shift away from the Industrial Age and into an era
in which giant life-science corporations are fashioning a...
The Emerging
Order: God in the Age of Scarcity
by Rifkin, Jeremy, and Howard, Ted
Time
Wars: The Primary Conflict in Human History
by Rifkin, Jeremy
Biosphere politics : a new consciousness for a new century
by Rifkin, Jeremy
The Age of Access: The New Culture of Hypercapitalism, Where All of Life
is a Paid-For Experience
by Rifkin, Jeremy
In The End of Work, Jeremy Rifkin argued that computers, robotics, telecommunications,
and biotechnologies are fast replacing human beings in virtually every
industry and workplace. In The Age of Access, he goes further, showing
how new technologies are even eliminating concepts of "property"
and "ownership" from our lives. In this new era, we will...
Entropy: A New World View
by Rifkin, Jeremy, and Howard, Ted
The Green Lifestyle Handbook: 1001 Ways to Heal the Earth
by Rifkin, Jeremy
The Green Lifestyle Handbook
by Rifkin, Jeremy
Entropy: Into the Greenhouse World
by Rifkin, Jeremy, and Howard, Ted
Biosphere Politics: A Cultural Odyssey from the Middle Ages to the
New Age
by Rifkin, Jeremy
The Human Body Shop: The Engineering and Marketing of Life, Revised
and Updated
by Kimbrell, Andrew, and Rifkin, Jeremy (Foreword by)
Who should play God? : the artificial creation of life and what it
means for the future of the human race
by Howard, Ted, and Rifkin, Jeremy
Declaration of a Heretic
by Rifkin, Jeremy
Voting Green: Your Complete Environmental Guide to Making Political Choices
in the '90's
by Rifkin, Jeremy, and Rifkin, Carol Grunewald
An indispensable political handbook for evaluating candidates' "green
quotient" in the 1992 elections. The book includes a list of the
most important legislation that has been introduced in the past few years;
details the voting record of each member of Congress; and includes a questionnaire
designed to determine candidates' allegiance to the green...
The North Will Rise Again: Pensions, Politics and Power in the 1980s
by Rifkin, Jeremy, and Barber, Randy
The age of access
by Rifkin, Jeremy
Who Should Play God?
by Rifkin, Jeremy, and Howard, Ted
The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of the Worldwide Energy Web and
the Redistribution of Power on Earth
by Rifkin, Jeremy
The message of The Hydrogen Economy is resoundingly simple: The earth
is depleting its oil reserves and even the most generous estimates show
oil reserves peaking in about forty years. The specter of global warming
and the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in the oil-rich regions of the
earth worsen the problem considerably. The answer, asserts Rifkin...
Entropy
by Rifkin, Jeremy
Rain Forest in Your Kitchen: The Hidden Connection Between Extinction
and Your Supermarket
by Teitel, Martin, and Rifkin, Jeremy
How to Commit Revolution American Style: Bicentennial Declaration
by Rifkin, Jeremy (Editor), and Rossen, John
The age of access : how the shift from ownership to access is transforming
modern life
by Rifkin, Jeremy