
A Future Perfect
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Adrian Wooldridge is a Washington correspondent for The Economist and was its West Coast bureau chief, based in Los Angeles. He is the author of Measuring the Mind: Education and Psychology in England, 1860-1990. He has written for The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, and The Times of London, and has appeared on NPR and the BBC.
The authors can be reached online via www.afutureperfect.com; www.johnmicklethwait.com; and www.adrianwooldridge.com.
Content
- Intro
- Praise for a Future Perfect
- About the Authors
- Other Books By This Author
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Authors' Note
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part One: The Remaking of a Borderless World
- Chapter 1: The Fall and Rise of Globalization
- Part Two: The Three Engines of Globalization
- Chapter 2: Technology as Freedom
- Chapter 3: The Dirty Dollar
- Chapter 4: The Visible Hand
- Chapter 5: Sex, Death, and the Welfare State
- Part Three: One World: The Business of Globalization
- Chapter 6: The Five Myths of Globalization
- Chapter 7: Managing in a Global Age
- Part Four: The Politics of Interdependence
- Chapter 8: The Strange Survival of the Nation-State
- Chapter 9: The Failure of Global Government
- Chapter 10: The Closing of the Global Mind
- Part Five: Winners and Losers
- Chapter 11: Silicon Valley and the Winner-Take-All Economy
- Chapter 12: The Cosmocrats: An Anxious Elite
- Chapter 13: Outside the Red Lacquered Gates: The Losers from Globalization
- Part Six: A Call to Arms
- Chapter 14: The Enemies Gather: The Backlash Against Globalization
- Chapter 15: Membership Has Its Responsibilities
- Chapter 16: The Ant and the Silversword: Working and Investing in the Twenty-first Century
- Conclusion: The Hidden Promise: Liberty Renewed
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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