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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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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Table of 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.