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An acclaimed economist challenges us to solve the problems of the twenty-first century with a new kind of global governance.
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In this ambitious, challenging, yet superbly readable book, Jean-François Rischard first tells us what constitutes a "global" problem and then offers a brief overview of the twenty most important. He finds they all have two things in common: They're getting worse, not better, and the standard strategies for dealing with them, such as international treaties, are woefully inadequate to the task. The chief problem is that in our high-population, fast-moving, globalized and interconnected world, we don't have an effective way of addressing the problems that such a world creates. Our difficulties belong to the present and the future, but our means of solving them belong to the past.Rischard proposes a new institution for global governance that would be recognized and supported by governments but would function as extra-governmental bodies devoted to particular problems. The powers of these "global issues networks" would not be legal but normative: They would monitor compliance with various globally recognized standards and would single out the nations and organizations that were not co-operating. Anyone who has eaten a can of "dolphin-safe" tuna knows how powerful, in a market-driven world, the pressure to comply with such standards can be.No book has ever presented such a clear and unified appraisal of global problems or offered such a consistent and well-defined approach to solving them. High Noon will be an agenda-setting book of interest across the political spectrum.
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Inside This Book Citations: This book cites 22 books | 11 books that cite this book Explore: Citations | Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Key Phrases - SIPs: current international setup, global issues networks, rethinking taxation, twenty global issues, inherently global issues (more) Key Phrases - CAPs: United States, United Kingdom, Kyoto Protocol, Latin America, World Bank (more) Browse Sample Pages: Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me! |
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Over the next twenty years, two big forces will deeply change the world as we know it Indeed, the rate of change will be unprecedented Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
current international setup, global issues networks,
Over the next twenty years, two big forces will deeply change the world as we know it Indeed, the rate of change will be unprecedented Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
current international setup, global issues networks,