Extreme economies : what life at the world's margins can teach us about our own future / Richard Davies.

By: Davies, Richard (Economics adviser) [author.]
Language: English Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020Copyright date: ©2019Edition: First American editionDescription: ix, 396 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1250170486; 9781250170484Other title: What life at the world's margins can teach us about our own futureSubject(s): Economics -- Sociological aspects | Economics | Economics | Economics -- Sociological aspectsDDC classification: 306.3 LOC classification: HM548 | .D373 2020
Contents:
Introduction: economics in extreme places -- Survival: the economics of resilience -- Failure: the economics of lost potential -- Future: the economics of tomorrow -- Conclusion: a rough guide to the future.
Summary: 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. These extreme economies illustrate the forces that test human resilience, drive societies to failure, and promise to shape our collective future. Reviving a foundational idea from the medical sciences, Extreme Economies turns the logic of modern economics on its head by arguing that these outlier societies can teach us more about our own than we might imagine. By adapting to circumstances unimaginable to most of us, the people in these societies are pioneering the economic infrastructure of the future.
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Originally published in 2019 by Bantam Press, an imprint of Transworld Publishers Ltd, Great Britain.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-385) and index

Introduction: economics in extreme places -- Survival: the economics of resilience -- Failure: the economics of lost potential -- Future: the economics of tomorrow -- Conclusion: a rough guide to the future.

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. These extreme economies illustrate the forces that test human resilience, drive societies to failure, and promise to shape our collective future. Reviving a foundational idea from the medical sciences, Extreme Economies turns the logic of modern economics on its head by arguing that these outlier societies can teach us more about our own than we might imagine. By adapting to circumstances unimaginable to most of us, the people in these societies are pioneering the economic infrastructure of the future.

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