A Future Perfect
The Challenge and Promise of Globalization
Published on 10. December 2008
416 pages
978-0-307-48532-8 (ISBN)
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A Future Perfect is the first comprehensive examination of the most important revolution of our time—globalization—and how it will continue to change our lives. Do businesses benefit from going global? Are we creating winner-take-all societies? Will globalization seal the triumph of junk culture? What will happen to individual careers? Gathering evidence worldwide, from the shantytowns of São Paolo to the boardrooms of General Electric, from the troubled Russia-Estonia border to the booming San Fernando Valley sex industry, John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge deliver an illuminating tour of the global economy and a fascinating assessment of its potential impact.
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Persons
John Micklethwait oversees coverage of the United States for The Economist, where he was previously New York bureau chief and business editor. He has won a Wincott Award for financial journalism. He has appeared on NPR and the BBC and written for the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and The New York Times.
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.
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
