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Missing the tide : global governments in retreat / Donald J. Johnston.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnston, Donald J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World politics--21st century.
- World politics.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 202 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- How the global optimism that characterized the 1990s evolved into pessimism and chaos.
- Contents:
- The prime minister calls
- The genius of Jean Monnet and the Marshall Plan
- Europe listing, but afloat
- Russia : an opportunity bungled
- Statistics : their uses and abuses
- The economists and the dismal science
- Central bankers and their controversies
- Austerity versus growth
- ideology versus common sense
- Bubbles in our future? Certainly!
- Sustainable development : a recipe with too many ngredients
- Climate change : unrealistic expectations
- The scourge of corruption, public and private
- Shaping globalization : dogged by failure
- The democratic imperative : perhaps not for all?
- Can the tide return?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Johnston, Donald J. Missing the tide.
- ISBN:
- 9780773549715
- 0773549714
- OCLC:
- 964327554
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