Extreme Economies : : What Life at the World's Margins can Teach us About our own Future
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Originally published in 2019 by Bantam Press, an imprint of Transworld Publishers Ltd, Great Britain.
Includes bibliographic references (pages 343-385) and index
Survival: the economics of resilience -- Failure: the economics of lost potential -- Future: the economics of tomorrow.
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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PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
Year Published: 2020
Description: 396 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1250170486
9781250170484
SUBJECTS
Economics -- Sociological aspects.
Economics.