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From Simon & Schuster, One World Ready or Not is William Greider's exploration of the manic logic of global capitalism.

Reflecting the viewpoints of politicians, workers, CEOs, and middle managers, the author of Who Will Tell the People assesses the global economy, points to problems of unregulated capital and labor, and proposes solutions the U.S. must take to lead the world economy onwards

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William Greider is the bestselling author of five previous books, including One World, Ready or Not (on the global economy), Who Will Tell the People (on American politics), and Secrets of the Temple (on the Federal Reserve). A reporter for forty years, he has written for The Washington Post and Rolling Stone and has been an on-air correspondent for six Frontline documentaries on PBS. Currently the national affairs correspondent for The Nation, he lives in Washington, D.C.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster; 1st edition (February 10, 1998)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 528 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0684835541
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0684835549
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.13 x 1.32 x 9.25 inches

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William Greider is the bestselling author of five previous books, including One World, Ready or Not (on the global economy), Who Will Tell the People (on American politics), and Secrets of the Temple (on the Federal Reserve). A reporter for forty years, he has written for The Washington Post and Rolling Stone and has been an on-air correspondent for six Frontline documentaries on PBS. Currently the national affairs correspondent for The Nation, he lives in Washington, D.C.

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Ivan

The real reasons decent jobs are leaving America !

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 31, 2011

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wow.....eye opening book. It like any book written by Greider,it is well written, well explored and wordy. If it can be written and said clearly in 10 words Greider does it in 15, but hey that is his style, and he does explain the issues well. The reasons jobs are leaving America is a trend, and one that would be difficult to stop, and no it is not Unions, or government regulation. He makes it seem like simple economics, but he goes well beyond what the common wisdom is on the subject is. This is stuff the politicians either don't know, don't understand, and if they did know they would never admit to it. This book can help you invest, or choose career if you apply his knowledge to your situation. I like the book. He explains the economics of China well, and you will be somewhat stunned when/if you read it, if you realize the implications. The nice thing about Greider he allows the reader some room to make connections, without telling the reader all the possible implications. Good book, but like I said wordy, at least for me.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 28, 2012

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Many people are not ready for Greider's perspective. It is frightening, and it robs people of simple solutions.
It is easier to blame the workers, or blame the so-called "illegals", than to realize that the
nature of economics has fundamentally changed due to golbalization. I gained many insights
from the reading of this book and another more recent one "Come Home, America". What I really
appreciated about this book is that it was written at a time when the dismal shape of the world
was not so apparent, at least not to many. His insights have proven prophetic, valid and
cogent. Where we go from here is no trivial question

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anonymous

Still timely

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In this book 1997 Grieder lays bare issues with the global economy. He writes well but his logic slips at times when he argues that because a part of the system has an issue, the whole system has that issue and he slips up on some facts here and there but on the whole, he brings up some important issues.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 30, 2009

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This book was written 13 years ago based on research a few years before that and it very accurately predicts the mess we are in now. You can follow your own advice steeped from reading it and maybe invest successfully in finding an exit to the U.S. economic doldrums, which are not going to end anytime soon.

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C. Taylor

It seems to be happening

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In some respects, it seems Greider's visions of the futre have happended over the last year. Thought provoking to say the least.

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Provocative, Insightful, Compassionate Look at the 3rd Wave

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 14, 2000

No one writes with more verve, insight, and human compassion than long-time Rolling Stone contributor and Editor William Greider. His perspective always centers on the human cost of social phenomena, and is always heartfelt, compassionate, and extremely well focused. In this book he centers in brilliantly on the ways in which the so-called "Third Wave" of global trading and commerce is poised to transform the social, economic, and political landscape of the countries in which it is being introduced. His writing skills are superb, and the ordinarily dry and stuffy stuff of economics come alive in this highly readable and quite entertaining work. In fact, reviewer Brink Lindsey of the Kirkus Review called this book "the best-written book on the global economy" he had ever read. Ditto, Mr. Lindsey, ditto.
I also agree with his observations calling the prose energized, clear, and sharp. However, I disagree with the negative criticism many other critics and reviewers have voiced concerning Mr. Greider's conclusions herein, which seem to center on the fact that he is not an apologist, fellow-traveler, or celebrant of the new global forces. Indeed, Mr. Greider's perspective is more sanguine, expressing concern of the many ways in which this fundamentally anti-democratic new commerce tends toward becoming a revolutionary & extraordinarily well-focused force literally power-hosing the new wealth generated by this commerce in the direction of the rich and well placed at the expense of almost everyone else.
Who can argue against the observation that we increasingly face an amazing conundrum when in face of the greatest sustained period of prosperity in the last forty years many people at the lower reaches of the socioeconomic spectrum are slipping farther and farther behind, that this prosperity is not acting to level the playing field, but, on the contrary is intensifying the distances and qualitative life styles of the affluent and the poor, or with the observation that consistently the indifferent, selfish and affluent conservative Republicans, ignoring the needs and problems of a majority of others, still demand a substantial tax refund for themselves at the expense of the rest of the populace? The truth speaks for itself in the sense that the governments of the world seem either uninterested or unable to regulate, limit, or meaningfully constrain the powers, policies, or dispositions of the multi-national corporations who now produce, distribute, and control the majority of the world's commercial efforts.
These corporations seem to be primarily motivated by motives much less socially responsive or oriented than they are profit-centered. Unless one actually believes in the silly, self-serving and patently ridiculous nonsense about Adam Smith's `invisible hand' of the market place, believing that somehow an unregulated and unconstrained world economy will automatically and magically manage and self-corrrect itself through the countervailing forces of the marketplace (can I sell you some of my old lottery tickets?), one must take heed of the plethora of examples one can readily observe concerning the changes in our social, economic, and political environment that stem from the effects of this new `global economy'.
In summary, Greider argues that the world is headed for a difficult & chaotic set of social & economic circumstances; disastrous levels of industrial plant overcapacity, unmanageable surplus goods, unemployable labor pools, frantic & often irrational stock speculation, unserviceable debts, and chronic massive unemployment. While all may seem to be wonderful to a casual observer watching along the surface, we are in fact skating bravely over the very thin ice of a totally new and revolutionary set of socioeconomic circumstances, and we should hardly be racing across this fragile and frozen expanse so quickly or so recklessly, trusting so blindly in so many anonymous corporate forces that historically have never bothered to concern themselves with the social, economic or political consequences following in the wake of their profit-oriented activities. Given the increasingly random & uncontrollable flow & use of capital, coming to terms with this emerging bulwark of the `new world order' will be increasingly problematic. His conclusions are similar to those of neo-Luddite authors like Sales Kirkpatrick and Theodore Roszak, who have come to similar conclusions about the increasingly serious situation emerging concerning a technical, commercial, and economic world spiraling out of control. In my opinion, Greider's book is a heaven-sent call to arms; the first issued by a mainstream social critic whose argument we would all do well to consider.

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