Permacrisis : a plan to fix a fractured world
(2023)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
303.485/BROWN,G

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 303.485/BROWN,G Available

Details

PUBLISHED
London : Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, 2023
©2023
DESCRIPTION

328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781398525610, 1398525618, 9781398525627, 1398525626, 9781398525610
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Prologue -- Introduction: Permacrisis, the 2022 Word of the Year -- Section 1: Growth -- Tailwinds to growth -- Headwinds to growth -- Sustainability and security -- Productivity and growth -- Changing the growth equation -- Section 2:Economic Management -- How quickly the world can change -- The good of economic management -- The bad and the ugly of economic management -- Three steps to improve economic management -- A better way -- Section 3: Global order -- The new abnormal -- Globalisation-lite: 'Great taste, less filling' -- Rebirth of international institutions -- Financing our future -- Achieving our global goals -- Conclusion

Three of the most internationally respected and experienced thinkers of our time, these friends found their pandemic Zooms increasingly focused on a cascade of crises: sputtering growth, surging inflation, poor policy responses, an escalating climate emergency, worsening inequality, increasing nationalism and a decline in global co-operation. They shared their fears and frustrations. And the more they talked, the more they realised that while past mistakes had set the world on this bumpy course, a better path leading to a brighter future exists. Informed by their different perspectives, they sought a common goal: achievable solutions to fix our fractured world. This book is the product of that thinking. At the heart of today's permacrisis are broken approaches to growth, economic management, and governance. While these approaches are broken, they are not beyond repair. An explanation of where we've gone wrong, and a provocative, inspiring plan to do nothing less than change the world, Permacrisis: A Plan to Fix a Fractured World, written with Reid Lidow, sets out how we can prevent crises and better manage the future for the benefit of the many and not the few. The longer a problem goes unresolved, the worse it will get; that's what happens in a permacrisis - and that's why we must act now

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