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The Sovereign Individual Hardcover – 4 Apr 1997

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Product details

  • Hardcover: 672 pages
  • Publisher: Macmillan (4 April 1997)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0333662083
  • ISBN-13: 978-0333662083
  • Product Dimensions: 15.3 x 3.8 x 23.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 920,283 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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George Grant

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If [Davidson and Rees-Mogg's] amazing track record for sheer prescience holds true, this may be their most revolutionary book yet....This disturbing book will stimulate your thinking, broaden your horizons, and illumine your conversations for quite some time to come. And just maybe it will provide the impetus necessary for you to get out of debt, set our financial house in order, and prepare for the uncertain days ahead.



George Grant"World"If [Davidson and Rees-Mogg's] amazing track record for sheer prescience holds true, this may be their most revolutionary book yet....This disturbing book will stimulate your thinking, broaden your horizons, and illumine your conversations for quite some time to come. And just maybe it will provide the impetus necessary for you to get out of debt, set our financial house in order, and prepare for the uncertain days ahead.

George Grant "World" If [Davidson and Rees-Mogg's] amazing track record for sheer prescience holds true, this may be their most revolutionary book yet....This disturbing book will stimulate your thinking, broaden your horizons, and illumine your conversations for quite some time to come. And just maybe it will provide the impetus necessary for you to get out of debt, set our financial house in order, and prepare for the uncertain days ahead.

George Grant World If [Davidson and Rees-Mogg's] amazing track record for sheer prescience holds true, this may be their most revolutionary book yet....This disturbing book will stimulate your thinking, broaden your horizons, and illumine your conversations for quite some time to come. And just maybe it will provide the impetus necessary for you to get out of debt, set our financial house in order, and prepare for the uncertain days ahead. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg edit Strategic Investment, one of the world's more widely circulated private investment letters. Davidson is a venture capitalist and entrepreneur, with investments in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, and New Zealand, as well as high-tech projects in North America. Rees-Mogg was formerly editor of The Times of London and vice chairman of the BBC. He is a director of the Private Bank of London. Together they authored Blood in the Streets: Investment Profits in a World Gone Mad and The Great Reckoning. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5.0 out of 5 starsThe best cut at future history that I have seen!
By A Customer on 10 Mar. 1999
Format: Hardcover
"The Sovereign Individual" is the most insightful book on "Future History", i.e. attempted prediction of the near future, that I have seen. It describes how the advent of cyberspace will undermine the power of our current nation-states, and how wealthy people, possibly including large parts of the upper-middle class, will shun the tax-happy nation-states and live "off-shore", i.e. in any jurisdiction that suits them, typically small countries such as can be found in the Caribbean. By the same token, a lot of businesses will move their head offices and many of of its other funcions based on cost/benefit, where cost of labour and taxation will be major factors, alhough not the only ones. An increasing number of activities can truly be performed without physical presence, as the world's work becomes increasingly intellectual. My own example of an early adaptor of this method would be Science Fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, who lives and writes tax-free in Sri Lanka.
Fundamentally, this trend to the "off-shore" will capitalise on an emerging free market in sovereignty, i.e. the provision of government services such as defence, police and court system. The likely result of this market will be that large scale support of unprofitable activities, such as massive transfer payments to nominally or factually poor people, will become increasingly rare, as those govenments that focus on protection will be able to offer a lower price. Thus, businesses and wealthy individuals will simply settle in jurisdictions that have minimal or nonexistent welfare systems.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsVery focused and clear argument
By A Customer on 18 Mar. 2003
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A very focused and clear argument for what is happening with the world, based on a historical walk-through from hunter-gatherers to internet times. You cannot fault the analysis, nor the conclusions.
The presentation style is mightily irritating -- several ill-disguised rants on every page along the lines of "we told you so", "when the rest of the world ridiculed us, who were the ones that were right after all...?", "we pointed this out as early as in 1994, but did people listen to us? Oh no.". If you can tolerate the rant and self-righteousness, you have a first-rate book with a frightening view of where we are heading, and no reason not to believe the conclusions.
Highly recommended, mightily irritating.
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4.0 out of 5 starsFascinating perspectives
By A Customer on 13 April 2000
Format: Paperback
The authors present a fascinating argument on where they feel society is heading, based on how they see current technology affecting the way we live our lives.
This book takes *big history*, combines it with analysis of contemporary technological advances (esp the internet) and argues that the future will see far more individual liberty than ever before.
The passage of two years since its publication has not undermined their theses at all.
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