World On Fire: How Exporting Free-market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability - Brossura

Chua, Amy

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0434012203 ISBN 13: 9780434012206

Casa editrice: William Heinemann, 2003

Riassunto

'After the fall of the Berlin wall, a consensus emerged that the magical combination of free markets and democracy would transform the world into a community of modernized, peace-loving nations, and individuals into civic-minded citizens and consumers. Ethnic hatred, religious zealotry, and other "backward" aspects of underdevelopment would be swept away.'In World on Fire, Amy Chua shows that just the opposite has happened. As global markets open, ethnic conflict worsens and democracy in developing nations turns ugly and violent. Examining the actual impact of economic globalisation across the world, Chua shows how free markets have concentrated disproportionate, often spectacular wealth in the hands of resented ethnic minorities. These 'market-dominant minorities' - from Chinese in Southeast Asia to Jews in post-Communist Russia, to, on a global scale, the US itself - invariably become targets of resentment and violence. Chua is not an anti-globalist. But she warns that, far from making the world a better place, democracy and capitalism - at least in the raw form in which they are currently being exported - are intensifying ethnic resentment and global violence, with potentially catastrophic results.

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

The New York Times bestseller. In the current affairs/globalisation tradition of Naomi Klein and Noreena Hertz.

L'autore:

Amy Chua is a professor at Yale Law School. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: William Heinemann
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0434012203
• ISBN 13: 9780434012206
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 368