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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
Description
When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial development at the dawn of the 21st century--the attacks of 9/11, or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations, and giving them...
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 86
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Lexile measure
1480L
Language
English
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps even the next revolutionary medical breakthrough, what is at stake is the whole idea of the good life as we have known it. Immigration and inequality, globalization and technological disruption, slowing growth and accelerating climate change--these are sources of great anxiety across the world ......