Exploring a diverse range of cultures, this book presents insights from 96 countries and 91 different business types, offering readers 100 unique approaches to life. It delves into the interplay between entrepreneurship and lifestyle choices, showcasing how various global perspectives can inspire personal and professional growth. Each example encourages readers to think creatively about their own paths, fostering a deeper understanding of the world and the myriad ways to thrive within it.
Focusing on the lives of individuals outside the wealthy elite, this collection features 100 powerful photographs that highlight the stories of those often overlooked. Selected by a prestigious panel, each image captures the struggles, triumphs, hopes, and dreams of real people, celebrating their resilience and humanity. This unique perspective contrasts sharply with the typical narratives of wealth, showcasing the richness of life experiences beyond financial status.
The free-market, limited-government development model has been an ecological and social disaster for the developing world. Sustainable and equitable development is possible only with the active involvement of a strong central state that can guide the economy, protect the environment, and prioritize meeting its people's basic needs
Konsumieren wir unseren Planeten zu Tode? Kann Asien den globalen Ökokollaps verhindern? Die Weltbevölkerung wird bis 2050 auf 9 Milliarden anwachsen, wobei die Mehrheit Asiaten sind. Was passiert, wenn alle Menschen in Asien den westlichen Lebensstandard anstreben? Wäre unser Planet noch bewohnbar? Chandran Nair beschreibt den Aufstieg Indiens, Chinas, Japans und Südostasiens als Wirtschaftsmächte und das damit verbundene Dilemma. Es wäre gerecht, wenn Asien denselben Luxus des Konsums wie der Westen genießen könnte, doch dies hätte katastrophale Folgen für das globale Ökosystem: Klimaveränderungen und Naturkatastrophen wären unvermeidlich. Nair analysiert nicht nur die Situation, sondern entwirft auch eine wünschenswerte Zukunft mit realistischen Lösungsvorschlägen in den Bereichen Wirtschaftswachstum, Konsum, Eigentum, Finanzarchitektur, Besteuerung, Arbeit und Leben. Seine These besagt, dass Asien, weil es dem westlichen Vorbild nicht folgen darf, das Potenzial hat, den Kapitalismus neu zu erfinden und nachhaltig zu gestalten. Die amerikanisch-europäische Dominanz neigt sich ihrem Ende zu, und wir sollten einer visionären Stimme aus Asien Gehör schenken.
Consumption has been the fuel that has driven the engine of global capitalism. The financial crisis has seen the West's leading economists and policy makers urging Asia to make an effort to consume more to help save the global community. This book argues that this view needs to be replaced by a more rational approach.
"White privilege damages and distorts societies around the world, not just in the United States. This book exposes its pervasive global reach and creates a new space for discourse on worldwide racial equality. In mid-2020, during the protests in the United States after the murder of George Floyd, over one hundred other countries held solidarity protests. These demonstrations often decried racial injustice and structural discrimination in their own societies. But no books have been written for a general audience describing the insidious role of white supremacy around the world. Chandran Nair argues that white privilege is the best way to understand how oppression and dominance by Western cultures operates. Touching on history, business, environment, entertainment, media fashion, education, and more, he analyzes how it has shaped, repressed, and destroyed local cultures to seek and preserve white economic power. Nair identifies white privilege as the driving force behind globalization, being constantly upheld and reproduced by a global superstructure that perpetuates widespread white economic and military dominance. This book provides a middle ground between brief media mentions and the dense rhetoric of racial politics so readers can develop a new worldview around dismantling white privilege at the global scale"-- Provided by publisher
