Extreme economies : what life at the world's margins can teach us about our own 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 fut...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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| 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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| Item Description: | Originally published in 2019 by Bantam Press, an imprint of Transworld Publishers Ltd, Great Britain. Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-385) and index |
| Physical Description: | ix, 396 pages : maps, illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 1250170486 9781250170484 |