Permacrisis : a plan to fix a fractured world / Gordon Brown, Mohamed A. El-Erian and Michael Spence, with Reid Lidow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Gordon, 1951- author.

Spence, Michael, 1943- author.

El-Erian, Mohamed A., 1958- author.

Lidow, Reid, author.

Contributor:

John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crises.

Crises--Forecasting.

Physical Description:

328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, 2023.

Summary:

Three of the most internationally respected and experienced thinkers of our time, these friends found their pandemic Zooms increasingly focused on a cascade of crises: sputtering growth, surging inflation, poor policy responses, an escalating climate emergency, worsening inequality, increasing nationalism and a decline in global co-operation. They shared their fears and frustrations. And the more they talked, the more they realised that while past mistakes had set the world on this bumpy course, a better path leading to a brighter future exists. Informed by their different perspectives, they sought a common goal: achievable solutions to fix our fractured world. This book is the product of that thinking. At the heart of today's permacrisis are broken approaches to growth, economic management, and governance. While these approaches are broken, they are not beyond repair. An explanation of where we've gone wrong, and a provocative, inspiring plan to do nothing less than change the world, Permacrisis: A Plan to Fix a Fractured World, written with Reid Lidow, sets out how we can prevent crises and better manage the future for the benefit of the many and not the few. The longer a problem goes unresolved, the worse it will get; that's what happens in a permacrisis - and that's why we must act now.

Contents:

Prologue

Introduction: Permacrisis, the 2022 Word of the Year

Section 1: Growth

Tailwinds to growth

Headwinds to growth

Sustainability and security

Productivity and growth

Changing the growth equation

Section 2:Economic Management

How quickly the world can change

The good of economic management

The bad and the ugly of economic management

Three steps to improve economic management

A better way

Section 3: Global order

The new abnormal

Globalisation-lite: 'Great taste, less filling'

Rebirth of international institutions

Financing our future

Achieving our global goals

Conclusion

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

9781398525610

1398525618

9781398525627

1398525626

OCLC:

1389778601

Publisher Number:

99995264011