How the West Was Lost - Fifty Years of Economic Folly - And the Stark Choices Ahead

Informationen zum Autor Dambisa Moyo is a Global Economist at an Investment Bank in London. She previously worked at the World Bank in Washington DC. A native of Zambia! Southern Africa! Dambisa holds a Doctorate in Economics from Oxford University and a Masters from Harvard University. Dambisa has spoken on issues of Aid! Debt and Poverty in developing countries at conferences including at the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland in 2005. Dambisa lives in London. Dead Aid is her first book. Klappentext HOW THE WEST WAS LOST represents a radical wake-up call to a complacent elite. It charts how over the last 50 years the most advanced and advantaged countries of the world have squandered their dominant position through a sustained catalogue of fundamentally flawed economic policies. It is these decisions that! along the way! have resulted in an economic and geo-political see-saw! which is now poised to tip in favour of the emerging world.

Product details

• Authors: Dambisa Moyo
• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.01.2011
• EAN: 9781846142352
• ISBN: 978-1-84614-235-2
• No. of pages: 226
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 233 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business; Weltwirtschaft, Wirtschaftskrise, Westen (pol.)