Helen Thompson

Disorder

Hard Times in the 21st Century

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Produktbeschreibung

Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century explains the historical origins of the political shocks of the past decade: why politics has been so difficult, why energy and debt are such a large part of these difficulties, and how two rather different kinds of democratic crises exist in Europe and the United States.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 219mm x 142mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780198864981
• ISBN-10: 0198864981
• Artikelnr.: 62355678

Autorenporträt

Helen Thompson is Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge University. She is the author of Oil and the western economic crisis (2017); China and the mortgaging of America (2010); and Might, right, prosperity and consent: representative democracy and the international economy (2008). Since 2015, Helen has been a regular contributor to the podcast Talking Politics and has written articles for the London Review of Books, The New York Times, and The Financial Times.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Disruption
I: Geopolitics
1: Eurasian limits
2: The impossible oil guarantee
3: Eurasia remade
II: Economy
4: Our currencies, your problem
5: Made in China, need dollars
6: We are not in Kansas any more
III: Democratic politics
7: Democratic time
8: The democratic tax state
9: Whither reform
Conclusions: The more things change
Index