Author: Johan Norberg
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2017-04-06
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1786072327
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Book of the Year for The Economist and the Observer Our world seems to be collapsing. The daily news cycle reports the deterioration: divisive politics across the Western world, racism, poverty, war, inequality, hunger. While politicians, journalists and activists from all sides talk about the damage done, Johan Norberg offers an illuminating and heartening analysis of just how far we have come in tackling the greatest problems facing humanity. In the face of fear-mongering, darkness and division, the facts are unequivocal: the golden age is now.
Author: Blair H. Sheppard
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 2020-08-04
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 1523088761
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“Shows how humans have brought us to the brink and how humanity can find solutions. I urge people to read with humility and the daring to act.” —Harpal Singh, former Chair, Save the Children, India, and former Vice Chair, Save the Children International In conversations with people all over the world, from government officials and business leaders to taxi drivers and schoolteachers, Blair Sheppard, global leader for strategy and leadership at PwC, discovered they all had surprisingly similar concerns. In this prescient and pragmatic book, he and his team sum up these concerns in what they call the ADAPT framework: Asymmetry of wealth; Disruption wrought by the unexpected and often problematic consequences of technology; Age disparities--stresses caused by very young or very old populations in developed and emerging countries; Polarization as a symptom of the breakdown in global and national consensus; and loss of Trust in the institutions that underpin and stabilize society. These concerns are in turn precipitating four crises: a crisis of prosperity, a crisis of technology, a crisis of institutional legitimacy, and a crisis of leadership. Sheppard and his team analyze the complex roots of these crises--but they also offer solutions, albeit often seemingly counterintuitive ones. For example, in an era of globalization, we need to place a much greater emphasis on developing self-sustaining local economies. And as technology permeates our lives, we need computer scientists and engineers conversant with sociology and psychology and poets who can code. The authors argue persuasively that we have only a decade to make headway on these problems. But if we tackle them now, thoughtfully, imaginatively, creatively, and energetically, in ten years we could be looking at a dawn instead of darkness.
Author: George Palmer PUTNAM (Publisher.)
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Published: 1851
Total Pages: 728
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Published: 1913
Total Pages: 608
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: G.P. Putnam
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2022-06-24
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 3375067674
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-04-11
Total Pages: 958
ISBN-13: 3382178451
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.