num_pages: 480
description: International BestsellerQuite simply the best guide to the global economy today. Fareed Zakaria Shaped by his twenty-five years traveling the world and enlivened by encounters with villagers from Rio to Beijing tycoons and presidents Ruchir Sharmas The Rise and Fall of Nations rethinks the dismal science of economics as a practical art. Narrowing the thousands of factors that can shape a countrys fortunes to ten clear rules Sharma explains how to spot political economic and social changes in real time. He shows how to read political headlines black markets the price of onions and billionaire rankings as signals of booms busts and protests. Set in a post-crisis age that has turned the world upside down replacing fast growth with slow growth and political calm with revolt Sharmas pioneering book is an entertaining field guide to understanding change in this era or any era. A Library Journal Best Book of 2016
language: English
title: The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company