
Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth - and How to Fix It
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Pamala Tyson
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Dambisa Moyo
From an internationally acclaimed economist, a provocative call to jump-start economic growth by aggressively overhauling liberal democracy
Around the world, people who are angry at stagnant wages and growing inequality have rebelled against established governments and turned to political extremes. Liberal democracy, history's greatest engine of growth, now struggles to overcome unprecedented economic headwinds - from aging populations to scarce resources to unsustainable debt burdens. Hobbled by short-term thinking and ideological dogma, democracies risk falling prey to nationalism and protectionism that will deliver declining living standards.
In Edge of Chaos, Dambisa Moyo shows why economic growth is essential to global stability, and why liberal democracies are failing to produce it today. Rather than turning away from democracy, she argues, we must fundamentally reform it. Edge of Chaos presents a radical blueprint for change in order to galvanize growth and ensure the survival of democracy in the 21st century.
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Critic reviews
"These ideas arrive as something of a relief..." (Financial Times)
"The author's program of remedy is provocative and of much interest to advocates of growth. Moyo clearly identifies systemic problems that the democracies-or what's left of them-would do well to address." (Kirkus Reviews)
"Edge of Chaos represents an important warning that America's global clout and the global order itself are 'under threat.'" (National Review)
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I had a hard time accepting a number of Ms. Moyo's prescriptions, which appear to focus solely on economic processes while ignoring the sociological issues driving real human beings and societies. Banging home the point that today being a liberal democracy doesn't guarantee economic stability nor well being, ignores the part that being slaves to economic theory is equally unacceptable and likely unrealizable. This is particularly so in the United States, even in the shadow of America's long torturous history where inhumane treatment of human beings ruled the day...
I too am extremely concerned by the voting patterns of so-called mature liberal democracies, but I also in expressing my preferences have the right to "not vote" as well as the right to select "none of the above." Term limits, IMHO is an anathema to the very democratic principle of one person one vote and ultimately caves in to societal dangers inherent in short term decision and policy making generated by the monitization of politics.
Great story, impeccable facts, unrealizable sugges
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A prescient and brilliant book
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brighten piece of work
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Edge of Chaos
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The analysis on Gini-Coefficient, Illiberal Democracy, GDP, Productivity, Capital Flows and Deteriorating Real Wages we’re well articulated.
Excellent perspectives from Dr Moyo Dambisa
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Fascinating eye opening book
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Incredible insights to rethinking democracy
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She either glosses over or ignores the key issues of; culture, intergenerational and religious wars, overpopulation, inequality and the biggest issue of all - no matter how much growth there is there are an increasing number of losers and if you open the flood gates for free movement of people which she prefers then there will only be more disaffected voters in the west.
Rather than waste valuable time reading/listening to this I would suggest Francis Fukuyama' Political Order and Political Decay and Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty First Century for some impressive scholarship and an understanding of the causes for our demise and potential solutions.
Underwhelming
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Not that impressive honestly
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