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Article: Orders of the Day.(Review)
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- November 1, 1999
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The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order, by Francis Fukuyama, New York: The Free Press, 336 pages, $26.00
The shift from an industrial to an information era weakened the social bonds and common values holding people together in Western societies, argues Francis Fukuyama, producing what he calls the "Great Disruption." But he adds that "social order, once disrupted, tends to get remade again, and there are many indications that this is happening today."
This book is an extension of The End of History and the Last Man (1992), in which Fukuyama asserted the triumph of political democracy and market economies. Now he ...