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EXTREME ECONOMIES : What Life at the World's Margins Can Teach Us About Our Own Future / RICHARD DAVIES.

By: Publisher: London : Transworld Publishers, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2020Copyright date: ©2019Edition: Black Swan editionDescription: 398 pages , 8 unnumbered pages of plates : maps, colour photographs ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
  • cartographic image
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781784163259
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 306.3
Summary: 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. These extreme economies illustrate the forces that test human resilience, drive societies to failure, and promise to shape our collective future. Reviving a foundational idea from the medical sciences, Extreme Economies turns the logic of modern economics on its head by arguing that these outlier societies can teach us more about our own than we might imagine. By adapting to circumstances unimaginable to most of us, the people in these societies are pioneering the economic infrastructure of the future.
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Black Swan Edition published in 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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. These extreme economies illustrate the forces that test human resilience, drive societies to failure, and promise to shape our collective future. Reviving a foundational idea from the medical sciences, Extreme Economies turns the logic of modern economics on its head by arguing that these outlier societies can teach us more about our own than we might imagine. By adapting to circumstances unimaginable to most of us, the people in these societies are pioneering the economic infrastructure of the future.

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