| Age of Discovery: Navigating the Storms of Our Second Renaissance Revised Edition Contributor(s): Goldin, Ian (Author), Kutarna, Chris (Author) |
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ISBN: 147294352X ISBN-13: 9781472943521 Publisher: Bloomsbury Business OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects - Social Science | Future Studies - History | Modern - 21st Century |
| Dewey: 909.82 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.1" W x 7.8" (1.20 lbs) 552 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
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| Publisher Description: Age of Discovery looks at the world on the brink of a new Renaissance and asks the question, how do we avoid chaos and disruption, and share more widely the benefits of progress? Now is humanity's best moment. And our most fragile. Global health, wealth and education are booming. Scientific discovery is flourishing. But the same forces that make big gains possible for some of us deliver big losses to others--and tangle us together in ways that make everyone vulnerable. We've been here before. The first Renaissance, the time of Columbus, Copernicus, Gutenberg and others, redrew all maps of the world, liberated information and shifted Western civilization from the medieval to the early modern era. Such change came at a price: social division, political extremism, economic shocks, pandemics and other unintended consequences of human endeavour. Now is our second Renaissance. In the face of terrorism, Brexit, refugee crises and the global impact of a Trump presidency, we can flourish--if we heed the urgent lessons of history. Age of Discovery, revised and updated for this paperback edition, shows us how. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kutarna, Chris: - Chris Kutarna is a Fellow of the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford and an expert on the fast-growing economies of Asia. Formerly a strategy consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, he lives on three continents and labors to help them all understand one another.Goldin, Ian: - Ian Goldin is a professor and the director of the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford. He was Vice President of the World Bank from 2003-2006. Formerly, he was Chief Executive and Director of the Development Bank of Southern Africa and served as an advisor to President Nelson Mandela. |