Who is the villain?

Paul Seabright

  • The Future of Success by Robert Reich
    Vintage, 289 pp, £8.99, April 2002, ISBN 0 09 942906 3

Of the many fantasies provoked by the spread of the Internet, few are creepier than the vision of a world in which every relationship can be dissolved at the click of a mouse. Yet the click might also seem liberating, empowering even, to the person doing the clicking. Robert Reich’s book is about the consequences, for our work and our lives, of the so-called new economy and – more subtly – the habits of mind and values encouraged by its supporting technologies.

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