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Extreme Economies : What Life at the World's Margins Can Teach Us about Our Own Future by Richard Davies (2020, Hardcover)

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A New Statesman best book of the year A Financial Times best economics book of 2019 An accessible, story-driven look at the future of the global economy, written by a leading expert To predict our future, we must look to the extremes. So argues the economist Richard Davies, who takes readers to the margins of the modern economy and beyond in his globe-trotting book. From a prison in rural Louisiana where inmates purchase drugs with prepaid cash cards to the poorest major city on earth, where residents buy clean water in plastic bags, from the world's first digital state to a prefecture in Japan whose population is the oldest in the world, how these extreme economies function--most often well outside any official oversight--offers a glimpse of the forces that underlie human resilience, drive societies to failure, and will come to shape our collective future. While the people who inhabit these places have long been dismissed or ignored, Extreme Economies revives a foundational idea from medical science to turn the logic of modern economics on its head, arguing that the outlier economies are the place to learn about our own future. Whether following Punjabi migrants through the lawless Panamanian jungle or visiting a day-care for the elderly modeled after a casino, Davies brings a storyteller's eye to places where the economy has been destroyed, distorted, and even turbocharged. In adapting to circumstances that would be unimaginable to most of us, the people he encounters along the way have helped to pioneer the economic infrastructure of the future. At once personal and keenly analytical, Extreme Economies is an epic travelogue for the age of global turbulence, shedding light on today's most pressing economic questions.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
1250170486
ISBN-13
9781250170484
eBay Product ID (ePID)
14038803572

Product Key Features

Book Title
Extreme Economies : What Life at the World's Margins Can Teach Us about Our Own Future
Author
Richard Davies
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Globalization, Economics / Macroeconomics
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Business & Economics, Political Science
Number of Pages
416 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
1.4in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
22.6 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Hm548.D373 2020
Table of Content
INTRODUCTION: Economics in Extreme Places A Note on the Data SURVIVAL: The Economics of Resilience 1. Aceh, Indonesia 2. Zaatari, Jordan 3. Louisiana, USA FAILURE: The Economics of Lost Potential 4. Darien, Panama 5. Kinshasa, DR Congo 6. Glasgow, UK FUTURE: The Economics of Tomorrow 7. Akita, Japan 8. Tallinn, Estonia 9. Santiago, Chile CONCLUSION: A Rough Guide to the Future Acknowledgements Notes and References Index
Lccn
2019-951666
Dewey Decimal
306.3
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes