Sinossi
In questo libro, Edward Luce affronta con chiarezza il progressivo indebolirsi dell'egemonia occidentale e la crisi del liberalismo, problemi di cui i populismi che proliferano in Europa e in America sono un sintomo, non la causa. Abbiamo imboccato, a detta di Luce, una traiettoria discendente. I motivi? L'arroganza delle élite nei confronti degli ultimi, dei dimenticati dal mercato, e l'errata convinzione che il sistema dovesse durare per sempre. Non si può guarire senza una diagnosi, per quanto severa possa apparire. E secondo Luce, a meno che l'Occidente non riesca a costruire un'economia capace e di cui possano beneficiare quante più persone possibile, la sua libertà corre seri pericoli. Unendo giornalismo ed esperienze di prima mano a una sintesi di alto livello della letteratura economica e sociologica più recente, Luce offre un ritratto del mondo contemporaneo e una ricetta per coloro che credono nei valori nati dall'Illuminismo e vogliono difenderli dagli attacchi cui sono sottoposti ogni giorno.
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- Pagine: 215
- Data di uscita: 21-11-2017
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Edward Luce’s THE RETREAT OF WESTERN LIBERALISM was written in the aftermath of Hillary Clinton’s surprising loss in November 2016. But the preface to this fascinating little book begins with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. That was a heady time. Many believed that western-style commercial demo Leggi tutto
Edward Luce is a tremendous journalist. Not only does he work very hard, not only has he earned access to some of the sharpest minds in business and politics, he also commands the mightiest pen at the Financial Times, bar none. And that’s why I bought his previous book, “Time to Start Thinking.” I di Leggi tutto
This was a well-written, if arch, and occasionally paternalistic/condescending anti-Trump volume. I'd still recommend reading it since the author does seem to hit upon some valuable insights - tying various disciplines together and drawing upon history for parallels to the current alarming political Leggi tutto
This book was like a very long, very engaging Facebook post that consolidates a lot of the general news and trends that most of us are already concerned with today. In sum, it is about Donald Trump, Brexit, the Thucydides trap, AI, the future of work, electoral populism and a number of other topics
This book is littered with confused, overly reductive arguments, and peppered with lots and lots of illiberalism. And it's not really saying anything very new or original. I think we've all realized by this point that Western liberalism is on the wane. I was in India when Modi came to power, and in
This is a very smart, lucid, and independent-minded look at the issues plaguing what we consider to be "liberal democracy," today and some of the skewed points of view that its beneficiaries have about its upkeep and promotion. It seems almost funny now that after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Franci Leggi tutto
This book offers a pessimistic view on the future of liberal democracy, and interprets its recent spread not as an unstoppable or monotonic trend of history, but as a fragile system, open to an attack from both within (e.g., election of Donald Trump), and outside (e.g., Russia, China). The West is n Leggi tutto
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