Disorder

Produktbeschreibung

Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century explains the historical origins of the political shocks of the past decade: why politics has been so difficult, why energy and debt are such a large part of these difficulties, and how two rather different kinds of democratic crises exist in Europe and the United States. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

* Introduction: Disruption


* I: Geopolitics


* 1: Eurasian limits


* 2: The impossible oil guarantee


* 3: Eurasia remade


* II: Economy


* 4: Our currencies, your problem


* 5: Made in China, need dollars


* 6: We are not in Kansas any more


* III: Democratic politics


* 7: Democratic time


* 8: The democratic tax state


* 9: Whither reform


* Conclusions: The more things change


* Afterword


* Index 

Autoreninfo

Helen Thompson is Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge University and Deputy Head of the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences. She is the author of Oil and the Western Economic Crisis (2017); China and the Mortgaging of America (2010); and Might, Right, Prosperity and Consent: Representative Democracy and the International Economy (2008). Helen has been a regular contributor to the podcast Talking Politics. She has written articles for the London Review of Books, The New York Times, and The Financial Times, and is a contributing writer to the New Statesman.