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One critical factor in determining the region’s future will be the role that the United States chooses to play going forward. As already noted, one reason for the region’s phenomenal success over the past seventy years is the presence of the United States. Yes, the United States badly overreached by trying to unite all of the Korean Peninsula by fo
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With the disruptions of AI, the accelerating complexity of change, and the global crises we face, people’s worldviews are in flux. It can be disorienting and enlivening. No one knows what the future holds, personally or professionally, but what’s clear is that we stand in a time of both great potential and real risk.—Peter Limberg
Our contribution would be a drop in the bucket, and the bucket probably leaks. This book is an invitation to think again, again: to turn away from the feeling that the fight against poverty is too overwhelming, and to start to think of the challenge as a set of concrete problems that, once properly identified and understood, can be solved one at a
... See moreAbhijit V. Banerjee • Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Throughout history, it has been important to understand the threats arising from globalization (disease, conquest, war, financial crises, and others) and to face them head on, not by ending the benefits of globalization, but by using the means of international cooperation to control the negative consequences of global-scale interconnectedness.
Jeffrey D. Sachs • The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions
Une politique de l’humanité embrasserait les différents problèmes qui se posent dans les différentes régions du globe et, au lieu d’une formule standard appliquée dans les contextes les plus divers, elle élaborerait des actions convenant à ces contextes. Ainsi, par exemple, les pays riches devraient combiner les croissances nécessaires avec les déc
... See moreEdgar Morin • La Voie : Pour l'avenir de l'Humanité (Essais) (French Edition)
In the twenty-first century, many dimensions of sustainable development will require public goods on a multi-country or global scale. Rivers, ecosystems, pollution, climate control, international financial flows, the Internet, power transmission, highway systems, railroad networks, and aviation all require strong regional and global cooperation. No
... See moreJeffrey D. Sachs • The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions
Obviously Reich’s influence went way beyond just me. Alongside other authors such as Anthony Giddens[411] and Jeremy Rifkin[412], he was instrumental in crafting the message of a new generation of progressive leaders that the era of the steady, lifelong job was over. In a more global and unstable world, lifelong education was the new key to providi
... See moreNicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age
