BSE outbreak in
United Nations
Charter
Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Security Council
United States
Americans as “chosen people,”
capitalism and patriotism in
challenge to precautionary principle
Constitution versus EU Constitution
contribution to space and time
cultural camps in
and death penalty
deficit in
foreign aid
foreign policy of
and frontier mentality
individualism in
jobs in
natural resources of
and private property
productivity in
quality of life in
religion in
workweek in
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Universal ethics
Universal human rights
enforcing
Upward mobility
Urry, John
USA Today
Usury
Utilitarianism
Utopian society
Uzzi, Brian
Vail, John
Vernadsky, Vladimir
Vietnam War
Violence
Vodafone
Volunteerism
Voter turnout
Vulnerabilities
Wage growth
Wall Street Journal
Wallstrom, Margot
Washington (state)
Wealth redistribution
Weber, Max
Western Europe
Western mind
Whitehead, Alfred North
White-Jacket: or, the World in a Man-of-War (Melville)
Wiener, Norbert
Winthrop, John
Wolf, Martin
Woodcock, George
Working poor
World Economic Forum
World Health Organization (WHO)
World Trade Organization (WTO)
World Values Survey
World War I
World War II
Yarjani, Javad
Youth program
Zapatero, José Luís Rodríguez
Zergour, Mustapha
Zerubavel, Eviatar
Zinsmeister, Karl
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JEREMY RIFKIN is an internationally renowned social critic and the best-selling author of The End of Work, The Biotech Century, The Age of Access, and The Hydrogen Economy, each of which has been translated into more than fifteen languages. He is president of the Foundation on Economic Trends in Washington, D.C. Since 1994, Mr. Rifkin has been a fellow at the Wharton School’s Executive Education Program, where he lectures to CEOs and senior corporate management from around the world on new trends in science and technology and their impacts on the global economy, society, and the environment. He is also an adviser to heads of state and government officials in a number of countries. Rifkin currently serves as an adviser to Romano Prodi, president of the European Commission, the governing body of the European Union. His monthly column on global issues appears in many of Europe’s leading newspapers and magazines. He lives with his wife, Carol Grunewald, in Washington, D.C.
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