MANUEL CASTELLS

This volume is devoted to processes of global social change induced by interaction between networks and identity. Manuel Castells studies the collapse of the Soviet Union, tracing it back to the incapacity of industrial statism to manage the transition to the information age.

In this second volume of "The Information Age" trilogy, with an extensive new preface following the

La crisis del capitalismo global que se desencadenó en 2008 es más que una crisis económica. Es estructural y multidimensional. La secuencia de acontecimientos que se han producido desde entonces muestra que nos hallamos ante unas condiciones económicas y sociales muy distintas de las que caracterizaban el capitalismo global informacional de las...

This first book in Castells' groundbreaking trilogy, with a substantial new preface, highlights the economic and social dynamics of the information age and shows how the network society has now fully risen on a global scale. Groundbreaking volume on the impact of the age of information on all aspects of societyIncludes coverage of the influence ...