Ten Nobels for the future

Jeremy Rifkin is the founder and president of the Foundation on Economic Trends in Washington, D.C. He authored thirteen books on the impact of technological changes on the economy, the workforce society, and the environment, which have been translated in fifteen languages and are used in hundreds of colleges and graduate schools around the world. He has lectured and been a resident scholar at more than 300 universities in some 10 countries in the past 25 years. His most recent book, The End of Work, is the result of a three year study of the changing conditions and nature of work in the Information Age. Jeremy Rifkin holds a degree in Economics from the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce of the University of Pennsylvania, and a degree in International Affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He is a visiting lecturer at the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce Senior Executive Training Program (The Aresty Institute of Executive Education).

In the mid 1970s, his books Common Sense II and Own Your Own Job were the first to popularize the idea of worker owned and managed companies. Today, 25 years later, United Airlines and other large firms are being bought out by their employees, changing the way America does business.

In the late 1970s, Jeremy Rifkin co-authored The North Will Rise Again: Pensions, Politics and Power in the 1980s, a trailblazing work that is widely credited with changing public perception and governement policy of the social use of hundreds of billions of dollars of pension fund investments in the United States. In the 1980s, Jeremy Rifkin authored Entropy, the international bestseller that brought together environmental and economic theory for the first time. The book helped lay the groundwork for current notions of sustainable development.

Rifkin has been influential in shaping the public policy in the United States and around the world. He has testified before numerous congressional commmittees and had consistent success in litigation against the government to insure responsible government policies on a variety of environmental and technology issues. His unique perspective and social commentary have made him a frequent guest on numerous television programs in the United States.

The National Journal, among the leading public policy journals in America, named Rifkin as one of the 150 people that have the most influence in shaping federal goverment policy.

1997
The end of work