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“... economy, the actual influence of such ventures seems largely Pyrrhic. In The End of Work, Jeremy Rifkin quotes the political economist Bennett Harrison’s assertion that ‘the proportion of Americans working for small companies and for individual establishments ... has barely changed at all since at least the early Sixties.’ Meanwhile, the ...”

“... adherents range from Edward Luttwak, writing powerfully in these pages on 7 April last year, to Jeremy Rifkin in The End of Work. From an abstract point of view – the vantage point of those who have high IQs and some idle time – Herrnstein and Murray have quite the neatest version of doom. People of high IQ have increasingly come to dominate the ...”

“... cheap protein. Any biological material will serve as a starting point. In the US, according to Jeremy Rifkin’s new book, some feedlots have been experimenting with cardboard, newspaper and sawdust. Others have been scraping up manure from pigpens and chicken houses and adding it to the cattlefeed. The stuff contains nitrogen and other minerals, so ...”

“... join with the EU in building “a New European Century”.’ Not to be outdone, the futurologist Jeremy Rifkin – American by birth, but by any standards an honorary European: indeed a personal adviser to Romano Prodi when he was president of the European Commission – has offered his guide to The European Dream.3 Seeking ‘harmony, not ...”