The Leaderless Revolution - Carne Ross
KORTE INHOUD
There are few books that attempt to interpret the world and how it is run. The Leaderless Revolution offers a refreshing and potent contrast to the Panglossian optimism of Tom Friedman's The World is Flat but, like that book, it offers a way of understanding the world of the 21st century that is both clear and easily comprehensible. Carne Ross takes different angles on contemporary issues - economics, politics, the state of democracy, the environment and terrorism - wrapping them into a unified explanation of how money and power function to control the lives of the earth's inhabitants, such that they feel powerless to affect their collective future. It seems that mankind has settled upon liberal democracy as the ideal form of government. Its triumph with the collapse of communism signalled the end of ideological struggle and thus of history. The Leaderless Revolution will show however that even in democracies, many if not most of the population feel that they are excluded from any agency over the issues that ...
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2011Uitgever: Simon & Schuster272 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1847375340ISBN-13: 9781847375346Koop dit boek tweedehands
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[Auteur: Ross, Carne] [Pagina's: 261] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: London, Simon & Schuster] [Jaar: 2011] [Titel: The Leaderless Revolution. How Ordinary People Will Take Power and Change Politics in the 21st Century]
