World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability

Chua, Amy

ISBN 10: 0385503024 / ISBN 13: 9780385503020

Editore: Doubleday, New York, 2003

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Dated, inscribed, and signed by Chua on the free front end paper. A nice clean unread copy with tight binding. There is a parallel dent on the bottom edges of the boards, and two, possibly three sets of parallel dents across the top board edges But for those issues, this volume would be rated as fine. The jacket has some edge wear and a 2 1/2" scratch on the rear panel, creating a line of some small broken holes of the laminate coating of the jacket. This book adds an important issue to genocide discussion in focusing on the presence of market dominant minorities. Fourth printing.

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• Titolo: World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability
• Editore: Doubleday, New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0385503024
• ISBN 13: 9780385503020
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: First Edition
• Condizione: VG+
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: VG
• Firmato: Signed by Author(s)

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Riassunto

Drawing on examples from around the world, the author describes the potential dangers of globalization and the exportation of free-market democracy, arguing that they do not spreak wealth evenly through a society but instead produce a class of wealthy plutocrats, as well as increased ethnic conflict, violence, ethnonationalism, and other potentially disastrous results.

Recensione

"A brilliant, groundbreaking assault on the prevailing wisdom that the American political and economic model is a one-stop solution to the world's woes."
-Will Blythe, Elle Magazine

"Chua frequently fuses expert analysis with personal recollections to assert that globalization has created a volatile concoction of free markets and democracy that has incited economic devastation, ethnic hatred and genocidal violence throughout the developing world.
-Publishers Weekly

"A nuanced contribution to the debate over whether free markets spread democracy or merely advance the McDonaldsization of the globe. Chua defends her case well (and adds a damning footnote to the history of Enron along the way). Globalism is a fact of modern life, she concludes, but one destined to yield much bloodshed in the years to come."
-Kirkus Reviews

"This hard-hitting book should be read by everyone who still imagines that free markets can solve all the world's ills."
-Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America