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2014 : how to survive the next world crisis / Nicholas Boyle.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: London, England ; New York, New York : Continuum, 2012Description: 180 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781441169365
  • 1441169369
Other title:
  • Two thousand and fourteen
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No title; No titleDDC classification:
  • 327.17
LOC classification:
  • JZ 1318 B792t 2012
Contents:
Introduction / Part One - Towards the Great Event / 1. The Great Event: A Numerological Speculation / 2. What Went Wrong with Globalisation / 3. Nations and Empires / 4.The Religion of America / 5. Living with the Elephant / 6. Saving the World / Part Two - Finding the Way / 7. Three Principles of Political Economy / 8. Global Institutions or a Global Ethic? What's Wrong with Rights? / 9. England Our England. National Identity, Past and Future.
Summary: A new world crisis is already looming. By 2014, our generation's legacy to the twenty-first century will be decided. Will it be a century of climatic disaster and war? The roots of the present crisis lie in an unbalanced globalization which has failed to match economic with political integration. False models of nationhood, markets, and empires have hindered the development of global governance. If human civilization is to survive the twenty-first century, current ideologies will have to give way to a more realistic acceptance of supranational authorities, and especially of an enhanced IMF and
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) JZ 1318 B792t 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000165266

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Part One - Towards the Great Event / 1. The Great Event: A Numerological Speculation / 2. What Went Wrong with Globalisation / 3. Nations and Empires / 4.The Religion of America / 5. Living with the Elephant / 6. Saving the World / Part Two - Finding the Way / 7. Three Principles of Political Economy / 8. Global Institutions or a Global Ethic? What's Wrong with Rights? / 9. England Our England. National Identity, Past and Future.

A new world crisis is already looming. By 2014, our generation's legacy to the twenty-first century will be decided. Will it be a century of climatic disaster and war? The roots of the present crisis lie in an unbalanced globalization which has failed to match economic with political integration. False models of nationhood, markets, and empires have hindered the development of global governance. If human civilization is to survive the twenty-first century, current ideologies will have to give way to a more realistic acceptance of supranational authorities, and especially of an enhanced IMF and

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