William Rees-Mogg

Lord William Rees-Mogg enters this wiki through The Sovereign Individual, the 1997 book he co-wrote with James Dale Davidson. This profile stays narrow, using the biographical details the book states about its own authors.

Work Present Here

The book identifies Rees-Mogg as a former editor of The Times of London and a former vice-chairman of the BBC, and at time of writing a director of the Private Bank of London. The title page styles him “Lord William Rees-Mogg,” reflecting his standing as a British public figure. His establishment vantage point — editor of a national paper of record, broadcaster, City director — gives the book’s prediction of the nation-state’s decline some of its weight: it is a forecast of institutional collapse written by an insider to those institutions.

With Davidson he founded and edited the Strategic Investment newsletter and co-authored Blood in the Streets: Investment Profits in a World Gone Mad, The Great Reckoning, and The Sovereign Individual, the trilogy in which the authors’ theory of megapolitics was developed.

Place in This Wiki

Rees-Mogg is used here only as a co-author of The Sovereign Individual and is not a libertarian theorist. His relevance is the book’s argument that the institutions he helped run — the national press, public broadcasting, the apparatus of the centralized nation-state — were being undermined by a shift in the logic of violence and the rise of a borderless cybereconomy.

See Also

• The Sovereign Individual - the book reference

• James Dale Davidson - co-author

• Megapolitics - the theory developed across the authors’ trilogy

• The Cybereconomy - the borderless-economy forecast central to the book

• Bitcoin Frees the Individual, Not the Collective - newsroom thesis backlink

Sources

• The Sovereign Individual (Full Text Aggregate) - author biography (about-the-authors page), title-page styling, and references to Strategic Investment, Blood in the Streets, and The Great Reckoning