Edge of Chaos

Edge of Chaos sets out the new political and economic challenges facing the world, and the specific, radical solutions needed to resolve these issues and reignite global growth.

Moyo's familiarity with the dismal science radiates through her provocative new work, Edge of Chaos , as she argues compellingly that the global failure to achieve sustained, inclusive growth underpins the rampant political turmoil

Autorentext

Dr Dambisa Moyo is an international economist who writes on the macroeconomy and global affairs.

She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa, How The West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly - And the Stark Choices Ahead and Winner Take All: China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World.

Moyo was named by Time m*agazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, and was named to the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders Forum. Her work regularly appears in economic and finance-related publications such as the *Financial Times and Wall Street Journal.

She completed a doctorate in Economics at Oxford University and holds a Masters degree from Harvard University. She completed an undergraduate degree in Chemistry and an MBA in Finance at the American University in Washington DC.

Klappentext

Around the world, people angry at stagnant wages and growing inequality have rebelled against established governments and turned to political extremes - from the revolutions of the Arab Spring to Brexit and the election of Donald Trump. Liberal democracy, history's greatest engine of growth, now struggles to overcome unprecedented economic headwinds - whether it's aging populations, scarce resources, or unsustainable debt burdens. Hobbled by short-term thinking and ideological dogma, democracies risk falling prey to nationalism and protectionism that will deliver declining living standards.

InEdge of Chaos, prize-winning economist Dambisa Moyo shows why economic growth is essential to global stability, and why liberal democracies are failing to produce it today. Rather than turning away from democracy, she argues, we must fundamentally reform it. Calling for an aggressive retooling of our political system, Moyo proposes new constraints on both elected officials and voters, including: extending politicians' terms so as to better match economic cycles, increasing minimum qualifications for candiates, introducing mandatory voting, and implementing a weighted voting system to empower the most knowledgeable and engaged citizens.

A sobering diagnosis of the scale, scope, and urgency of our political and economic ills, Edge of Chaos presents a radical blueprint for change in order to galvanize economic growth and ensure the survival of democracy in the twenty-first century.

Zusammenfassung

A generation after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world is once again on the edge of chaos. Demonstrations have broken out from Belgium to Brazil led by angry citizens demanding a greater say in their political and economic future, better education, heathcare and living standards. The bottom line of this outrage is the same; people are demanding their governments do more to improve their lives faster, something which policymakers are unable to deliver under conditions of anaemic growth. Rising income inequality and a stagnant economy are threats to both the developed and the developing world, and leaders can no longer afford to ignore this gathering storm.

In Edge of Chaos, Dambisa Moyo sets out the new political and economic challenges facing the world, and the specific, radical solutions needed to resolve these issues and reignite global growth. Dambisa enumerates the four headwinds of demographics, inequality, commodity scarcity and technological innovation that are driving social and economic unrest, and argues for a fundamental retooling of democratic capitalism to address current problems and deliver better outcomes in the future. In the twenty-first century, a crisis in one country can quickly become our own, and fragile economies produce a fragile international community. Edge of Chaos is a warning for advanced and emerging nations alike: we must reverse the dramatic erosion in growth, or face the consequences of a fragmented and unstable global future.