The collapse of globalism : and the reinvention of the world /
John Ralston Saul
- London : Atlantic, 2006
- xix, 309 p. ; 20 cm.
Includes index.
p. 1. Context. A serpent in paradise ; A summary of the promised future ; What they said it would do ; What somebody forgot to mention ; A short history of economics becoming religion. -- p. 2. The rise. 1971 ; The vacuum ; The king's foot ; Selected romantic enthusiasms ; The gathering force ; Crucifixion economics. -- p. 3. The plateau. Success ; 1991 ; The ideology of progress ; 1995. -- p. 4. The fall. A negative equilibrium ; NGOs and God ; A chronology of decline ; A chronology of decline: the Malaysian breakout ; The end of belief ; India and China ; New Zealand flips again. -- p. 5. And where are we going now? The new vacuum: an interregnum of morbid symptoms ; The new vacuum: is the nation-state back? ; Negative nationalism ; The normalization of irregular warfare ; Positive nationalism.
Globalization, like many great geopolitical ideologies before it, is officially dead. This book examines where we go from here. Now in paperback: 'Elegantly written and deeply important... Saul has provide a vital analysis of why globalization was never inevitable and always destined to fail, and of what will come in its place.' Sebastian Bosher, Ecologist 'A prophet' Time; 'Insightful, informative and entertaining' Guardian 'Saul brings a great breadth of literary and cultural knowledge to his task... There is much that I like about this indignant approach, and there is much evidence to support Saul's contention that things are going badly wrong with our planet, its economic and social systems and its environment.' Paul Kennedy, Sunday Times
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