ISBN: 9781250170514
Editorial: Picador
Autor: Davies, Richard
Año de edición: 2021
N° Páginas: 416
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: Biografía del autor Richard Davies is a British economist and journalist. He is a fellow at the London School of Economics, and has served as economic adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers at HM Treasury. The author of Extreme Economies, he also served as the economics editor of The Economist. A New Statesman best book of the year New York Times Editors' Choice pickA Financial Times best economics book of 2019An 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. Críticas Markets, Mr. Davies engagingly shows, can make an extreme situation less extreme . . . a compelling portrait of markets functioning--and sometimes malfunctioning--in all sorts of conditions and cultures. --William Easterly, The Wall Street JournalAll nine studies [in Extreme Economies] are engagingly written and genuinely interesting, each a dive into a corner of the world you don't hear much about that conveys, briefly and clearly, a sense of how this far-off place works . . . Davies's visit to Zaatari, a massive, hastily built camp for Syrian refugees in Jordan, is fascinating reportage on its own terms and also a brilliant illustration of Adam Smith's observations about the power of the natural human tendency to 'truck, barter and exchange one thing for another.' --Matthew Yglesias, The New York Times Book ReviewRichard Davies's Extreme Economies is a reflection on human resistance . . . Weaving economic theory and individual life stories, this is an important and enjoyable read. --Roula Khalaf, Financial TimesAccessible and original . . . [Extreme Economies] is not doctrinaire. It shows that markets can work wonders in unlikely places but work perversely in others and need a structure of social organisation within which to function. [Richard Davies] draws on sociology and anthropology and the simple power of observation and conversation to bring economics alive. --Vince Cable, New StatesmanDavies, a former economics editor of The Economist, debuts with a well-curated, globe-spanning study of nine irregular financial systems to understand where the modern world is headed . . . In each location, Davies keeps his perspective on broad, and often disturbing, historical trends while celebrating the resourcefulness of the individuals and communities he profiles. . . This ambitious and
- Idioma: Inglés
- Autor: Davies, Richard
- Editorial: Picador
- N° Paginas: 416
- Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
- Envío: Desde EE.UU.
