The book, “The Sovereign Individual”, sounds like a book that would appeal to the individualist seeking freedom, but the whole title is, “The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State.”
The book by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg is actually a book on economics, and like many such books, it is making a prediction. According to Publishers Weekly, “The computer revolution, in the authors’ dire scenario, will subvert and destroy the nation-state as globalized cybercommerce, lubricated by cybercurrency, drastically limits governments’ powers to tax. They further predict that the next millennium will see an enormous decline in the influence of politicians, lobbyists, labor unions and regulated professions as new information technologies democratize talent and innovation and decentralize the workplace. In their forecast, citizenship will become obsolete; new forms of sovereignty reminiscent of medieval merchant republics will spring up; electronic plebiscites will decide legislative proposals; mafias, renegade covert agencies and criminal gangs will exercise much more behind-the-scenes power.”
I’ve explained elsewhere why all such a predictions can never be made, but such predictions will continue to be made, and people will continue to believe them, even though such predictions are always worthless. Ultimately, however, the real value of things is decided by the market. If you really would like to buy this book you can buy it from Amazon for one cent. The book will actually cost you $4.00, but $3.99 of that is for shipping.