9781250170484-1250170486-Extreme Economies: What Life at the World's Margins Can Teach Us About Our Own Future

Extreme Economies: What Life at the World's Margins Can Teach Us About Our Own Future

ISBN-13: 9781250170484
ISBN-10: 1250170486
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Richard Davies
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover 416 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781250170484
ISBN-10: 1250170486
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Richard Davies
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover 416 pages

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Extreme Economies: What Life at the World's Margins Can Teach Us About Our Own Future (ISBN-13: 9781250170484 and ISBN-10: 1250170486), written by authors Richard Davies, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2020. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Economic Conditions (Economics, Macroeconomics, Economics, International Business, Globalization) books. You can easily purchase or rent Extreme Economies: What Life at the World's Margins Can Teach Us About Our Own Future (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Economic Conditions books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.59.

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A New Statesman best book of the year | New York Times Editors' Choice pick
A Financial Times best economics book of 2019

An accessible, story-driven look at the future of the global economy, written by a leading expert

To predict our future, we must look to the extremes. So argues the economist Richard Davies, who takes readers to the margins of the modern economy and beyond in his globe-trotting book. From a prison in rural Louisiana where inmates purchase drugs with prepaid cash cards to the poorest major city on earth, where residents buy clean water in plastic bags, from the world’s first digital state to a prefecture in Japan whose population is the oldest in the world, how these extreme economies function―most often well outside any official oversight―offers a glimpse of the forces that underlie human resilience, drive societies to failure, and will come to shape our collective future.

While the people who inhabit these places have long been dismissed or ignored, Extreme Economies revives a foundational idea from medical science to turn the logic of modern economics on its head, arguing that the outlier economies are the place to learn about our own future. Whether following Punjabi migrants through the lawless Panamanian jungle or visiting a day-care for the elderly modeled after a casino, Davies brings a storyteller’s eye to places where the economy has been destroyed, distorted, and even turbocharged. In adapting to circumstances that would be unimaginable to most of us, the people he encounters along the way have helped to pioneer the economic infrastructure of the future.

At once personal and keenly analytical, Extreme Economies is an epic travelogue for the age of global turbulence, shedding light on today’s most pressing economic questions.

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