Age of Discovery - Navigating the Storms of Our Second Renaissance

Now is humanity''s best moment. And our most fragile. Global health, wealth and education are booming. Scientific discovery is flourishing. But the same forces that make big gains possible for some of us deliver big losses to others-and tangle us together in ways that make everyone vulnerable.We''ve been here before. The first Renaissance, the time of Columbus, Copernicus, Gutenberg and others, redrew all maps of the world, liberated information and shifted Western civilization from the medieval to the early modern era. Such change came at a price: social division, political extremism, economic shocks, pandemics and other unintended consequences of human endeavour.Now is our s nd Renaissance. In the face of terrorism, Brexit, refugee crises and the global impact of a Trump presidency, we can flourish-if we heed the urgent lessons of history. Age of Discovery , revised and updated for this paperback edition, shows us how.>

Product details

• Authors: Ian Goldin, Ian Kutarna Goldin, Goldin Ian, Chris Kutarna, Kutarna Chris
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 21.09.2017
• EAN: 9781472943521
• ISBN: 978-1-4729-4352-1
• No. of pages: 552
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Globalization, Business and Management, HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century, 21st Century, Business & management, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Popular economics, Behavioural economics, International Economics, Political Economy, Social and cultural history, Society and culture: general, Development economics and emerging economies, European history: Renaissance, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / Economics & Trade