The Sovereign Individual
First hardcover edition cover | |
| Author | William Rees-Mogg and James Dale Davidson |
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| Audio read by | Michael David Axtell |
| Cover artist | Calvin Chu (first Touchstone edition) |
| Language | English |
| Subjects | Forecasting on:
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| Publisher | Touchstone (Simon & Schuster) |
Publication date | 1997 (originally) 26 August 1999 (Touchstone edition) |
| Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback), e-book, audiobook |
| Pages | 448 |
| ISBN | 9780684832722 |
| OCLC | 925008652 |
| Preceded by | The Great Reckoning: How the World Will Change Before the Year 2000 |
The Sovereign Individual: How to survive and thrive during the collapse of the welfare state is a 1997 non-fiction book by William Rees-Mogg and James Dale Davidson. Later republished on 26 August 1999 by Touchstone with the new subtitle Mastering the Transition to the Information Age. It forecasts the development of the twenty-first century; focusing on the rise of the internet and cyberspace, digital currency and digital economy, self-ownership and decentralization from the State.
The Sovereign Individual has been recommended by members of the cryptocurrency community such as Naval Ravikant and Brian Armstrong. In 2020, the book was reprinted with a preface written by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel.