The collapse of globalism
Subtitle: and the reinvention of the world
By: John Ralston Saul
Publisher: Penguin Canada
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780143173816
Subjects: Globalization; International economic relations; Nationalism; Mondialisation; Relations économiques internationales; Nationalisme; Globalism
Description: The Collapse of Globalism Revised Edition And The Reinvention Of The World BY JOHN RALSTON SAUL Publisher: Penguin Canada In 1999, John Ralston Saul began predicting that globalism would collapse. In 2005, he laid out this scenario in The Collapse of Globalism: and the Reinvention of the World Now he has enlarged the book, showing how today's crisis came about and suggesting what to do next. In this new edition, Saul describes the current financial crisis as a mere boil to be lanced. The far more serious problem is that the West{u2014}driven by most of its economists, managers, consultants, and columnists{u2014}remains stuck on outdated ideas of growth, wealth creation, and trade expansion. They are still tryin to limit the debate to a narrow choice between protectionism and free trade and are concentrated on old-fashioned stimulation. Public policy has been dominated by the people who created this crisis. Saul envisions a new sort of wealth creation and growth, and in place of reaction, advocates new forms of action--Publisher's website.
Notes: On cover: New chapter on the economic crisis.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. I. Context. A serpent in paradise ; A summary of the promised future ; What they said it would do ; What somebody forgot to mention ; A short history of economics becoming religion.; title: pt. II. The rise. 1971 ; The vacuum ; The king's fool ; Selected romantic enthusiasms ; The gathering force ; Crucifixion economics.; title: pt. III. The plateau. Success ; 1991 ; The ideology of progress ; 1995.; title: pt. IV. The fall. A negative equilibrium ; NGOs and God ; A chronology of decline ; A chronology of decline: the Malaysian breakout ; The end of belief ; India and China ; New Zealand flips again.; title: pt. V. And where are we going now? The new vacuum: an interregnum of morbid symptoms ; The new vacuum: is the nation-state back? ; Negative nationalism ; The normalization of irregular warfare ; Positive nationalism; title: Epilogue: the return of choice, 2009.