Amitai Etzioni este profesor de sociologie la George Washington University, SUA. Publica in „The New York Times”, „The Washington Post” si „The Wall Street Journal”. Este autorul a 21 de carti, dintre care enumeram: „The Monochrome Society” ( 2001), „Next: The Road to the Good Society” ( 2001), „The Limits of Privacy (1999), The New Golden Rule: Community and Morality in a Democratic Society” (1996), „The Spirit of Community: Rights, Responsibilities and the Communitarian Agenda” (1993) si „The Moral Dimension: Toward a New Economics” (1988). La Editura Polirom a aparut „Societatea monocroma” (2002).