Growth
One of Barack Obama's 10 Favorite Books of the YearOne of the New Yorker's Best Books of the YearFinalist for the Financial Times Best Book of the Year A vivid account of the past, present, and future of economic growth, showing how and why we must continue to pursue it while responding to the challenges it creates. Over the past two centuries, economic growth has freed billions from the struggle for subsistence. Yet prosperity has come at a price: environmental destruction, desolation of local cultures, the emergence of vast inequalities. Many respond that now is the time to shrink our economic footprint. But Daniel Susskind argues that such "degrowth" would be folly. Instead, we must keep growth but redirect it, making it better reflect our values. Growth: A History and a Reckoning shows how policymaking in the second half of the twentieth century came to revolve around a single-minded quest for greater GDP. The growth obsession has been met with the assertion that "we cannot have infinite growth on a finite planet." Susskind shows, though, that growth is a product not of resource exploitation but of new ideas. In that sense, growth really can be infinite. Still, he says, critics are right to insist that we can no longer focus on upsides alone. We must confront tradeoffs: societies will have to deliberately pursue less growth for the sake of other goals. These will be moral decisions, not simply economic ones, demanding the engagement not just of politicians and experts but of all citizens.
Capitalism Created the Climate Crisis and Capitalism Will Solve It
USA Today BestsellerCreative and practical free-market solutions to climate change In Capitalism Created the Climate Crisis and Capitalism Will Solve It: The Market Forces Catalyzing a Climate Technology Renaissance, distinguished author Kentaro Kawamori delivers a fascinating and timely exploration of the interplay between capitalism and climate change. He explains how the capitalist system helped to contribute to the current crisis of global warming and how that same system will help to end it. In the book, the author discusses the enormous impact of the climate crisis and how the government, the modern finance industry, the fossil fuel industry, and others combined to accelerate the warming of the world. He then considers the roles those same players will play to reverse this effect in the coming years. You'll also find: Discussions of how climate tech innovations will transform the economy and how technology disruptors will become involved in the process The ways the energy industry will change to incorporate the realities and consequences of a warming climate Explorations of the incentives created by free market structures and how to include climate stakeholders in the discussion An engaging and exciting new resource for anyone interested in the intersection of economics, business, and the environment, Capitalism Created the Climate Crisis and Capitalism Will Solve It contains practical and thoughtful climate prescriptions for a world desperately in need of them.
Business Beyond Borders
INTRODUCING 25 REAL-LIFE STORIES THAT REVEAL THE RULES FOR WORKING SUCCESSFULLY ACROSS CULTURESThere is no excuse for cultural ignorance in the 21st century. The greatest factor affecting the success or failure of a global business is understanding the cultural differences that lie hidden, like minefields, in day-to-day work. Recognize and manage these cultural differences, and you accelerate your success; ignore them and they will undermine your global performance. Business Beyond Borders explains culture through the real-life stories of the author, resonating and bringing the cultural challenges inherent in global work to life. From negotiating with Bedouins in the Libyan Sahara, to managing a team of Brazilians in Rio de Janeiro, from out-running an earthquake during a keynote presentation in Mexico City, to losing a government "handler" in Beijing, each of the stories illustrates a critical cultural issue that global managers need to understand today. With a summary of the "golden global rules" that everyone working in the global 21st century needs to know, Business Beyond Borders is a celebration of what makes all of us around the world-all so different- simultaneously all the same.
Violent Saviors
A celebrated economist argues that economic development is not really development unless everyone has the right to consent to their own progress For centuries, the developed Western world has exploited the less-developed "Rest" in the name of progress, conquering the Americas, driving the Atlantic slave trade, and colonizing Africa and Asia. Throughout, the West has justified this global conquest by the alleged material gains it brought to the conquered. But the colonial experiment unintentionally revealed how much of a demand there was for self-determination, and not just for relief from poverty. In Violent Saviors, renowned economist William Easterly examines how the demand for agency has always been at the heart of debates on development. Spanning nearly four centuries of global history, Easterly argues that commerce, rather than conquest, could meet the need for equal rights as well as the need for prosperity. Looking to the liberal economic ideas of thinkers like Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, and Amartya Sen, Easterly shows how the surge in global trade has given agency to billions of people for the first time. Narrating the long debate between conquest and commerce, Easterly offers a new and urgent perspective on global economics: the demands for agency, dignity, and respect must be at the center of the global fight against poverty.
The Age of Extraction
Tim Wu explores how today's dominant platforms manipulate attention, extract wealth, and deepen inequality--urging us to recognize their influence and reclaim control to create a balanced economy that works for all. "The magic of Tim Wu's The Age of Extraction is its simplicity. Wu deftly breaks down one of the greatest challenges of our age--the unaccountable power of tech platforms--into such digestible pieces that the solutions for what to do become dead obvious. Essential reading."--Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI "It's not just in your head--your online life is draining your wallet.... [The Age of Extraction is] a sharp and eye-opening introduction to how we arrived at platform capitalism--where no good click goes unmonetized."--Kirkus Reviews Our world is dominated by a handful of tech platforms. They provide great conveniences and entertainment, but also stand as some of the most effective instruments of wealth extraction ever invented, seizing immense amounts of money, data, and attention from all of us. An economy driven by digital platforms and AI influence offers the potential to enrich us, and also threatens to marginalize entire industries, widen the wealth gap, and foster a two-class nation. As technology evolves and our markets adapt, can society cultivate a better life for everyone? Is it possible to balance economic growth and egalitarianism, or are we too far gone? Tim Wu--the preeminent scholar and former White House official who coined the phrase "net neutrality"--explores the rise of platform power and details the risks and rewards of working within such systems. The Age of Extraction tells the story of an Internet that promised widespread wealth and democracy in the 1990s and 2000s, only to create new economic classes and aid the spread of autocracy instead. Wu frames our current moment with lessons from recent history--from generative AI and predictive social data to the antimonopoly and crypto movements--and envisions a future where technological advances can serve the greatest possible good. Concise and hopeful, The Age of Extraction offers consequential proposals for taking back control in order to achieve a better economic balance and prosperity for all.
AI and the Future of Financial Planning How AI will reshape wealth creation globally
Generation Restoration
Discover and define a new relationship between humanity and nature In Generation Restoration: How to Fix Our Relationship Crisis with Mother Nature Vice President of Climate Action at Salesforce, Tim Christophersen, delivers a clarion call for a new kind of global ecological literacy. You'll discover how we can reset our relationship with nature, conceiving of ourselves as an integral part of it, rather than apart from it. The book explains how we can change the way we interact with the world around us and rapidly increase the effectiveness of all "green" initiatives. It's filled with stories and case studies of environmental success stories and failures from around the globe. Inside the book: A recipe for a simple--but profound--shift in the way we view nature and the role of human beings within it How to resist the impulses towards doom and despair and choose hope instead The lessons we can learn from Indigenous peoples around the world, who understand important and obvious lessons about nature that have escaped other societies Perfect for anyone interested in the future of our planet and our species, Generation Restoration is an inspiring and eye-opening discussion of an issue that's critical to all our survival and wellbeing.
Mass Automation
What happens when companies can make decisions, analyze data, and manufacture products-mostly without people? In Mass Automation: Rethinking Companies for an Era When They Can Act on Their Own, Nick Pogrebnyakov takes readers on a compelling journey into a near future where AI, robotics, and data sensing converge to reshape how companies work, compete, and evolve. This is not a technical manual. It's a sweeping yet grounded vision of "nearly automated companies" where AI drives decision-making, robots perform physical tasks, and sensing technologies capture and interpret real-time data. Drawing on two decades of experience in academia and industry, Pogrebnyakov unpacks how automation transforms company functions- strategy, R&D, marketing, logistics. Through vivid scenarios and realworld examples, he shows how automation fundamentally alters how firms compete, organize, and scale. Business leaders, entrepreneurs, engineers, scholars, and policymakers will find this a grounded, practical guide for preparing for mass automation. If you're looking for more than hype about AI and robotics-if you want to understand how businesses will actually work in an automated economy- this book is your blueprint.
Digital Economy
The world is no longer divided by borders alone-it is divided by code, algorithms, and platforms. In Digital Economy: Battleground of the Digital Era, futurist and strategist Mohammad J. Sear delivers a bold, uncompromising look at how nations, organizations, and leaders must navigate the defining conflict of our time: the race for digital supremacy.From the fall of once-mighty giants like Kodak and Blockbuster to the rise of AI-driven economies, this book reveals how traditional playbooks have become obsolete. Nations that fail to adapt risk sliding into irrelevance, while those that master the digital terrain will wield unprecedented economic and geopolitical power.Inside, you'll discover: The Point of No Return: Why digital is no longer just part of your economy-it is the operating system of your economy.The Digital Ecosystem Map: A strategic framework that exposes the hidden layers of the global digital battlefield.Economic Battlefronts: How to prioritize national strengths and choose where to compete-whether in content, hardware, ecosystems, or AI.The Playbook: Offensive, defensive, and alliance strategies to capture value, preserve sovereignty, and build resilience in an age of rapid disruption.Far more than a policy manual, this is a strategic briefing for leaders who must decide where-and how-to fight in the new great game. Urgent, insightful, and purpose-driven, Digital Economy: Battleground of the Digital Era challenges readers to reimagine, unlearn, and transform before it's too late.If you want to understand the economic wars already reshaping the 21st century-and how to win them-this book is your essential guide.
The Great Depression in Eastern Europe
As the centenary of the Great Depression approaches, this book offers a historical study of its impact on Eastern Europe. Due to its agricultural dominance this region was particularly hard hit. The volume focuses on ten states of the interwar period that had emerged from the Ottoman, Romanov, Habsburg, and Hohenzollern empires and where national sovereignty was particularly contested. The contributing authors apply an integrative approach that uses economic change as a starting point for analysing socio-institutional changes and political realignments. They review the main responses that the respective countries have made to try to mitigate the impact of the crises, such as economic protectionism or the construction of welfare states. The contributions also examine the profound impact of the Depression on the relationship between societies and states, between genders, between social classes, and between different nationalities. By moving the study of economic nationalism from economic history to the center of social and political history, the volume contributes to a much better understanding of states, societies and nationalism in Eastern Europe in the 1930s.
The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century
A radical reappraisal of the nature and activities of business--what it is for and how it works "A characteristically acerbic analysis of the archetypal organisational unit of capitalism."--Andrew Hill, Financial Times, "Best Books of 2024: Business" Shortlisted for the 2024 Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award In the world of Adam Smith and Karl Marx, capitalists built and controlled mills and factories. That relationship between capital and labor continued in the automobile assembly lines and petrochemical plants of the twentieth century. But no longer: products and production have dematerialized. The goods and services provided by the leading companies of the twenty-first century appear on your screen, fit in your pocket, or occupy your head. Ownership of the means of production is a redundant concept. Workers are the means of production; increasingly, they take the plant home. Capital is a service bought from a specialist supplier with little influence over customer businesses. The professional managers who run modern corporations do not exert authority because they are wealthy; they are wealthy because they exert authority. John Kay's incisive overhaul of our ideas about business redefines our understanding of successful commercial activity and the corporation--and describes how we have come to "love the product" as we "hate the producer." This is a brilliant and original work from one of the greatest economists.
NREGA and Quality of Life of Beneficiaries
With the NREGA scheme, India embarked on an ambitious attempt to battle poverty by guaranteeing employment to those who demand it. The scheme also aims to transform rural areas by improving the quality of life through guaranteed minimum wages and capital formation within rural economies, thereby redressing poverty and boosting overall national development.This book focuses on the positive impacts NREGA has brought to households through the wage payments availed by its beneficiaries. It examines the scheme's effect on the overall quality of life by assessing various improvement indicators. These include economic condition, purchasing power, consumption of food and non-food items, health and nutrition, children's education, creation of household and cultivable assets, social participation in community events and organizations, and impact on out-migration.Findings reveal that NREGA has brought significant changes to beneficiaries' lives, especially by enhancing their purchasing power and altering consumption patterns for the better.
Economica
In a book that "sets a new standard in economic history" (Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist), acclaimed economic historian Victoria Bateman tells the story of how women made the world rich How many female entrepreneurs, economic revolutionaries, merchants, and industrialists can you name? You would be forgiven for thinking that, until very recently, there were none at all. But what about Phryne, the richest woman in ancient Athens, who offered to pay to rebuild the walls of Thebes after the city was razed by Alexander the Great? Or what about Priscilla Wakefield, the writer who set up the first English bank for women and children? And, just as important, what about the everyday women who, paid only a pittance, labored for the profit of others? From the most successful women of their day to those who struggled to make ends meet, Economica takes you on a journey that begins in the Stone Age and ends in the twenty-first century, spanning the world's historic centers of prosperity: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Peru, the Indus Valley, the Roman Empire, the Islamic Empire, China, Europe, and the United States. By shining a light on the women whose contributions to the economy have been hidden for far too long, Economica is more than a history of women--it is a more accurate economic history of us all.
The Investor's Guide to Saudi Arabia
The Investor's Guide to Saudi Arabia: Opportunities in the Heart of the Middle East is your go-to resource for exploring one of the world's fastest-growing markets. This easy-to-read guide breaks down the Saudi economy, highlighting major industries like oil and gas, petrochemicals, mining, tourism, and entertainment. It also explains how the Vision 2030 plan is opening up exciting new possibilities for investors. You'll get clear, practical insights on how to do business in Saudi Arabia, including how to set up a company, understand the tax system, protect your ideas, and stay compliant with local rules. The book also points you to high-potential opportunities in areas like renewable energy, construction, technology, healthcare, education, and more. Beyond the numbers, it helps you navigate local business culture. You'll learn what to expect when it comes to etiquette, communication, religion, and building trust with partners. There's also a helpful section on managing risks, understanding the financial markets, and exploring investment tools, including Islamic finance. Whether you're new to investing in the region or looking to deepen your strategy, this guide offers the information you need to move forward with confidence.
The Investor's Guide to Saudi Arabia
The Investor's Guide to Saudi Arabia: Opportunities in the Heart of the Middle East is your go-to resource for exploring one of the world's fastest-growing markets. This easy-to-read guide breaks down the Saudi economy, highlighting major industries like oil and gas, petrochemicals, mining, tourism, and entertainment. It also explains how the Vision 2030 plan is opening up exciting new possibilities for investors. You'll get clear, practical insights on how to do business in Saudi Arabia, including how to set up a company, understand the tax system, protect your ideas, and stay compliant with local rules. The book also points you to high-potential opportunities in areas like renewable energy, construction, technology, healthcare, education, and more. Beyond the numbers, it helps you navigate local business culture. You'll learn what to expect when it comes to etiquette, communication, religion, and building trust with partners. There's also a helpful section on managing risks, understanding the financial markets, and exploring investment tools, including Islamic finance. Whether you're new to investing in the region or looking to deepen your strategy, this guide offers the information you need to move forward with confidence.
The Invention of Infinite Growth
A history of how the pursuit of growth has kept us from creating a more sustainable and just world. Most economists believe that growth is the surest path to better lives. This has proven to be one of humanity's most powerful and dangerous ideas. It shapes policy across the globe, but it fatally undermines the natural ecosystems necessary to sustain human life. How did we get here? In The Invention of Infinite Growth, environmental historian Christopher F. Jones takes us through two hundred and fifty years of economic thinking to examine the ideal of growth, its powerful influence, and the crippling burdens many decisions made in its name have placed on us all. Jones argues that the pursuit of growth has never reflected its costs, because economists downplay environmental degradation. What's worse, skyrocketing inequality and diminishing improvements in most people's well-being mean growth too often delivers too little for too many. Jones urges economists to engage more broadly with other ways of thinking, as well as with citizens and governments to recognize and slow infinite growth's impact on the real world. Both accessible and eye-opening, The Invention of Infinite Growth offers hope for the future. Humans have not always believed that economic growth could or should continue, and so it is possible for us to change course. We can still create new ideas about how to promote environmental sustainability, human welfare, and even responsible growth, without killing the planet and ourselves.
Consumed
Shortlisted for the SABEW 2025 Best in Business Book Awards Longlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award. 'This book will change the way you see the world and could change the world itself' CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ULTRA- PROCESSED PEOPLE 'Chaudhuri does a mighty job of showing how plastic came to take over our lives, and why we have repeatedly failed to curb it' FINANCIAL TIMES 'A must read for anyone who buys anything plastic' MICHAEL MOSS, PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF SALT, SUGAR, FAT 'Sharp research and a gripping story' BEN COHEN AND JERRY GREENFIELD, CO-FOUNDERS OF BEN & JERRY'S 'Fantastic reporting! This book will entertain you even as it raises your blood pressure' BILL MCKIBBEN, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE END OF THE WORLD 'Eye-popping, engaging and rigorous' MIKE BERNERS-LEE, AUTHOR OF A CLIMATE OF TRUTH 'An important and engaging read' ADAM ALTER, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF IRRESISTIBLE Over the past seventy years, McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble, Unilever and other consumer goods makers have harnessed single-use plastics to turbocharge their profits. They've poured billions of dollars into convincing us we need disposable diapers, cups, bags, bottles, shampoo sachets and ultra-processed foods. We were never clamoring for any of this. But this shift towards disposability has fundamentally transformed our daily habits. Think of toddlers kept in disposable diapers for far longer than their parents wore cloth, our obsession with bottled water and our insatiable appetite for convenient snacks and coffee. While at first we shaped plastics, somewhere along the way, plastics took over and began shaping us. Like any addiction, our plastic habit has consequences. It is damaging our climate and biodiversity and we are only just starting to understand its effect on our own health. How did plastic take over our lives? And why have we been unable to rein it in? In investigating how we got here, Consumed arms us to make better decisions about where we go next. It is only by understanding this history that we will stop accepting the same failed solutions and demand better from the brands that got us hooked on plastic in the first place.
Inside Thatcher's Monetarism Experiment
In 1979, Margaret Thatcher's new government was faced with rampant double-digit inflation, rising unemployment and flatlining economic growth. In response, Thatcher pursued an economic policy which rejected the old orthodoxies and was promoted by only a minority of economists: a policy based on the doctrine of monetarism. Tim Lankester was the private secretary for economic affairs to Thatcher during the early years of her government. His insider's account explains her attitudes and decisions and those of the other main players in this deeply damaging experiment in economic policy making, which promised much but completely failed to deliver. Offering fascinating insights into one of the most unsuccessful episodes of British economic history, he also examines the legacy of monetarism for the economy today.
No Way Out
What if everything you've been told about opportunity, fairness, and success was built on a lie?This book reveals the hidden machinery behind global wealth inequality, showing how today's economic systems weren't designed to uplift-but to contain. From the corridors of offshore finance secrets to the institutional grip of the IMF and World Bank, it traces a chilling logic: the game is rigged, and it's rigged to keep the few rich and the many trapped.It's not just about loopholes or bad actors-it's about an entire architecture built to make tax havens legal, billionaires untouchable, and poverty seem like personal failure. Through gripping narratives and forensic storytelling, you'll uncover how global elite power structures quietly govern the world with no accountability. You'll see how the myth of meritocracy turns ambition into shame, how debt is used as a tool of discipline, and why capitalism and inequality are not opposing forces-but intimate partners.This book is for readers who sense that something deeper is wrong-who are done with surface-level answers and want to understand how power actually works. Whether you're a student, activist, thinker, or professional, it will give you the tools to see the invisible architecture of control.- Discover why the rich stay rich-and what that means for everyone else- Learn how the system is rigged at a structural, legal, and psychological level- Understand why economic injustice is sustained not by accident, but by design- Explore the hidden world of wealth few ever see-and fewer dare to challengeBy the final page, you won't just know more-you'll see differently. Because once you truly understand the rules of the game, there's no way out of seeing them.
Trade and Society in the Straits of Melaka
This pioneering work from a member of Malaysia's new generation of historians is a tale of two very different cities, the one with a trading heritage dating back centuries, the other a new creation spawned by the declining fortunes of the once mighty Dutch East India Company. Melaka was an important commercial entrepot on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula long before it fell to Portugese forces in 1511, but thereafter began an extended process of decline that would continue after the Dutch conquest of the city in 1641. Penang became a significant port after 1786 when 'country traders' created a base on the island to defy the Dutch monopoly, although it was quickly overshadowed by Singapore after the founding of a British settlement there in 1819. Drawing on a large volume of archival records, many of them not used by earlier historians, Trade and Society in the Straits of Melaka examines the social and economic fabric of these two port cities, the one very much a Dutch town and the other British. Along the way, the author deals with a number of key questions. Did colonial port cities have a different character and structure from indigenous towns? Did the administrative style of the Dutch and English differ substantially? What was the economic basis of Melaka and Penang? What was the effect of the European presence on indigenous trade and society? The answers involve considerations of urban morphology, demographic characteristics and migration, property rights, and slave ownership. The author also provides a detailed account of shipping in the Straits of Melaka, and discusses how this information contributes to debates concerning the decline of the region's 'Age of Commerce' in the face of imperialist competition. By documenting the impact of imperialist ambitions on the economy and society of two major trading centers, this book breaks new ground and will provide a point of reference for all future research concerning the period.illus. For sale only in the U.S., its dependencies, Canada, and Mexico
Financial Self-Defence How to outsmart broken systems and financial predators
The game is rigged and it s not by accident. Every day, millions fall into money traps, victims of a system that thrives on confusion, fear, and manipulation. If you've ever felt like no matter how hard you work, you're still running in place this book will show you why. This is your financial self defence manual in an age of economic deceit. It peels back the layers of financial system corruption to reveal how institutions profit from your stress, your silence, and your trust. From predatory lending to invisible fees and emotional spending triggers, you ll learn how to protect your money in a world built to take it from you. Rooted in deep money psychology and packed with real-life stories, actionable strategies, and eye-opening insights, this book helps you avoid financial scams and escape the mental traps that keep you broke. Whether you re a Gen Z just starting out or a millennial burnt out by bad advice, it s a roadmap to personal finance for millennials and for anyone ready to reclaim control. This isn t about retiring rich. It s about staying sane, solvent, and outsmarting the system before it breaks you. With a deep dive into decentralised wealth strategies, you ll learn how to think independently, act strategically, and design a financial life rooted in truth not illusions. Your freedom starts here.
The World's Worst Bet
"A singularly--thrillingly--persuasive chronicle of globalization's spectacular rise and fall." ―Evan Osnos, National Book Award-winning author of Age of Ambition The triumphant globalization that began in the 1990s has given way to a world riven by conflict, populism, and economic nationalism. In The World's Worst Bet, David J. Lynch offers a trenchant, fast-paced narrative of the rise and fall of the greatest engine of prosperity the world has ever known. Lynch explains what went right, what went wrong, and what needs to change to preserve the benefits of global integration and to build prosperity for all Americans. Lynch brings a deep understanding of the forces affecting Americans' lives to his portrayal of a fascinating cast of characters: presidents and policymakers; factory workers whose anger over lost jobs reshaped a nation's politics; and the anti-globalization warriors of the right and left. Their stories show how the United States made a bad bet on globalization, gambling that it could enjoy its benefits while ignoring its costs: dislocated workers, vulnerable supply chains, and the rise of a powerful rival. With trillions of dollars now at stake, The World's Worst Bet explains the failings of the past and offers an insightful guide to the opportunities of the future.
Roadkill
Explore the financial, social, ethical, and environmental impacts of our obsession with, and dependency on, cars. Learn how to change the way we use them. Roadkill: Unveiling the True Cost of Our Toxic Relationship with Cars, by Professor Henrietta Moore and Arthur Kay, explores the philosophical implications of car culture, as well as the practical impacts it has on your money, your taxes, your neighborhood, your planet, your health, and your happiness. While the car has been marketed as a symbol of "freedom", the authors convincingly argue that it has limited the flourishing of our cities and restricted our choices. How can we fix our toxic relationship with cars? The authors offer a new way of thinking that promises to multiply your choices, improve your city, and expand your freedoms. Inside the book: Jaw-dropping, real-world examples of the human and monetary costs imposed by cars, including the fact that cars have killed 60 to 80 million people since their invention, more than the deaths of WWI and WWII combined. Philosophical arguments explaining how car-centric cities restrict the freedoms of drivers and non-drivers alike. A catalogue of ideas and approaches for urban designers, transport planners, policymakers, and mayors. Practical recommendations for all contexts: for you, your family, your neighborhood, your town or city, and your national government. Critiques of the myths around electric cars and autonomous cars, providing readers with a comprehensive understanding of the implications of this emerging frontier. Ideas on how we can re-frame our relationship with the car? The authors recognize they can be useful machines, when used intentionally, and thoughtfully invited into our lives. Over 45 figures, original illustrations, diagrams, and colour photographs. Roadkill is a persuasive and illuminating call to action for city dwellers, drivers, environmentalists, urbanists, and policymakers--anyone interested in practical ways to improve your life and expand your freedoms.
Socioeconomics, Philosophy, and Deneocoloniality
Existing paradigms such as "decoloniality" simplify the complex dynamics between former colonies and colonial powers. Such frameworks overlook the role of local elites in maintaining and even enhancing oppressive systems. They also imply that external forces are responsible for ongoing exploitation. This book tackles this concept head on by introducing a new methodology called "deneocoloniality." Deoneocoloniality expands on decoloniality and neocolonialism. It argues that, while decoloniality focuses on the residual impacts of colonialism by external forces, it neglects the internal dynamics where former colonized elites play a significant role in perpetuating oppression for personal gain. The book presents socioeconomic and philosophical case studies to support deneocoloniality as a more comprehensive framework for understanding current realities in African countries. Readers will gain a nuanced understanding of the intricate power structures affecting developing nations. The book provides a structured methodology for analyzing problems, emphasizing the importance of logical reasoning and collaborative efforts. It offers practical solutions based on deep analysis, moving beyond mere diagnosis to actionable recommendations. This approach aims to equip readers with the tools needed to develop policies and strategies that address both external and internal sources of oppression.
Visions of Inequality
A Financial Times Best Economics Book of the Year "An essential and insightful analysis of the history of economic inequality urgently relevant today...a groundbreaking work, bound to influence the economics profession and our worldview." --LSE Review of Books "A history of the changing ways economists have broached the subject [of inequality] since the French Revolution...[Milanovic] describes how Western economists were in thrall to an unholy combination of extremely simplistic assumptions and extremely complex mathematical models." --New York Times "A timely book that brings the weight of the past to bear on one of the most pressing issues of our time...Milanovic is a clear and direct writer, unafraid of making strong judgements and with an idiosyncratic eye for detail. That makes for original, and sometimes amusingly wry, revelations." --Literary Review "How do you see income distribution in your time, and how and why do you expect it to change?" Branko Milanovic imagines posing this question to six of history's most influential economists. Probing the works of these key thinkers in the context of their lives, Milanovic charts the evolution of the concept of inequality across the centuries. We cannot speak of inequality in general, he argues: any analysis of it is inextricably linked to a particular time and place. Visions of Inequality takes us from Fran癟ois Quesnay, for whom social classes were prescribed by law, through Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and Karl Marx, who saw class as a purely economic category determined by one's relation to the means of production. Later, Vilfredo Pareto reconceived class in terms of elites versus the rest, while Simon Kuznets saw inequality arising from the urban-rural divide. Milanovic further explores why inequality receded from scholarship during the Cold War, before gaining renewed attention in economics today. An invaluable intellectual genealogy, Visions of Inequality brings nuanced insight to a hotly contested idea.
