The Fix
Tim Duggan Books (Verlag)
9780451497314 (ISBN)
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Jonathan Tepperman's The Fix presents a very different picture. It identifies ten pervasive and seemingly impossible challenges-including immigration reform, economic stagnation, political gridlock, corruption, and Islamist extremism-and shows that, contrary to the general consensus, each has a solution, and not merely a hypothetical one. By taking a close look at overlooked success stories-from countries as diverse as Canada, Botswana, and Indonesia-Tepperman discovers practical advice for problem-solvers of all stripes, making a data-driven case for optimism in a time of crushing pessimism.
Jonathan Tepperman is the managing editor of Foreign Affairs. After growing up in Canada, he studied English at Yale and law at Oxford and NYU. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic. He lives in Brooklyn with his family.
Longlisted for the 2016 Financial Times Business Book of the Year
"An indispensable handbook. . . . Smart and agile. . . . The timing of this book could not be better. . . . Tepperman goes into impressive detail in each case study and delivers assessments in clear, pared-down prose." -Michael Hirsh, The New York Times Book Review
"Persuasive. . . . The success of Canadian multiculturalism provides just one of 10 engagingly written case studies in Jonathan Tepperman's book. . . . The Fix makes an acute point in its attempt to recover a lost sense of optimism." -The Financial Times
"Tepperman's conclusion is valuable: eschew ideology; focus on pragmatic solutions to core problems, adjust as you go, but be as tough as is necessary. A viable future for capitalism will cut across the ideological baggage of the twentieth century. As Tepperman argues, the leaders who stuck rigorously to this approach initially faced intense criticism." -Paul Collier, The Times Literary Supplement
"A readable and fascinating book. . . . Tepperman provides a refreshing and timely challenge to the idea that any of these problems are insurmountable." -Simon Johnson, Finance & Development
"An enjoyable and informative book. . . . Tepperman does a wonderful job of illustrating that government leaders can achieve great things if they put their minds to it." -The Washington Monthly
"Just when it looks like the world's problems couldn't get much worse, The Fix cuts through the gloom like a ray of sunshine. With storytelling reminiscent of Michael Lewis and a surgeon's eye for detail, Tepperman takes us on an eye-opening tour of the planet's local villages, cabinet rooms, and presidential palaces-where a few outstanding leaders have made real strides toward solving colossal economic and political challenges. If you care about understanding the world or improving it, this book is not to be missed. It may very well change the face of leadership." -Adam Grant, author of Originals
"Readers looking for good news will love this book. Tepperman makes a compelling case, in lively and personal prose, that strong leaders willing to forsake political orthodoxy for good ideas can actually solve the toughest problems the world faces. Governments from Brazil to Canada to Indonesia have successfully tackled problems ranging from inequality to immigration to radical Islam. All is not lost!" -Anne-Marie Slaughter, author of Unfinished Business
"The Fix is a refreshing and readable new way of looking at the world. Tepperman combines old-fashioned reporting, storytelling, and social science to create a roadmap for solving today's great problems, from radicalism to inequality to political paralysis. Anyone disheartened by the current state of affairs should read this original, super-smart, and eye-opening book." -Charles Duhigg, author of Smarter Faster Better
"We hear every day about all the perils and problems we face. Along comes this wonderful, intelligent, well-written book that tells us about all the solutions. Traveling around the world, Tepperman has found countries that took on big challenges, from inequality to immigration, and found innovative solutions. This book will inform and enlighten you-and cheer you up." -Fareed Zakaria, author of The Post-American World
"The Fix is the book we've been waiting for, one that tackles the seemingly insurmountable problems of our time-from inequality to partisan gridlock to terrorism. Best of all, it offers solutions. By showing how countries around the world have overcome these problems, The Fixbrings hope when we need it most." -Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive
"Despair no more. In this original and engaging book, Tepperman takes on the declinist conventional wisdom with insight and vigor. There are answers out there, he argues: all we need to do is look around, and learn. A wise and timely book." -Jon Meacham, author of Destiny and Power
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PROFITS TO THE PEOPLE
How Brazil Spreads Its Wealth
Look." Lula leaned his stocky frame over the arm of his chair and pushed his face close to mine, locking eyes. "It sometimes bothers my educated friends when I say this. But the number one teacher in my life was a woman who was born and died illiterate: my mother," he said. "With all due respect to experts and academics, they know very little about the poor. They know a lot about statistics, but that's different, sabe? To an intellectual, putting fifty dollarsin the hands of a poor person is charity; an academic has no idea what a poor person can do with it. But that's because at university, they don't teach you how to care for the poor. And it's because most experts have never experienced what the poor go through every day. They've never had to go to work without breakfast. They've never lived in a flooded house, or had to wait three hours at a bus stop. To experts, a social problem like inequality is only numbers. But I took that social problem and made it into a political one, a practical one. And then I tried to solve it."
It was December-summer in Brazil-and Lula and I were sitting in his map-lined private office in Ipiranga, a slightly scruffy middle-class neighborhood of São Paulo. I'd traveled there to ask Brazil's former president-formally known as Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, though nobody calls him that-just how he'd done it. How had Lula turned inequality into what he'd just described as a politically manageable problem-and then tackled it with such stunning success?
Finding the answer felt urgent. After all, income inequality has exploded around the world in recent years, becoming a source of intense global anxiety. The gulf between the ultrarich and the rest seems to be growing inexorably just about everywhere. And no one seems to know what to do about it.
One reason for this helplessness is that economic growth-long seen as the key to improving general welfare-is no longer working the way it's supposed to. Though politicians often blame the current inequality crisis on the Great Recession and its aftershocks, that hypothesis doesn't hold up. For if you look at many of the countries whose income gaps have grown the widest in the past few years, you'll make a counterintuitive discovery: the list includes some of the world's fastest-growing economies, like China's.
What this means is that merely getting the world's struggling economies back on track isn't going to do much to close the yawning income gaps. It might just produce more Chinas. Truly solving our inequality problem is going to take a much more creative and comprehensive approach.
The hunt for that strategy is already well under way, with pundits and increasingly desperate national leaders racking their brains for an answer. Of those proposed so far, the best known is probably that of Thomas Piketty, the superstar French economist who, in his 2014 bestseller, called for the imposition of a global wealth tax.
It's not hard to see why so many people have fallen for this scheme. It's appealingly simple, and packs a gratifying soak-the-rich punch. But there are two big problems with Piketty's plan, as well as other similarly extreme approaches to inequality. First, they'd never work, for both political and technical reasons; the global elite are too good at protecting their interests and avoiding the taxes they're already supposed to pay.
And second, such controversial strategies are unnecessary. Over the last dozen years or so, one country-Brazil-has shown that there's a far better, less radical, and more market-friendly way to fight inequality. This approach has been tested, and it works.
The man sitting across from me on that hot day in Ipiranga was the one who'd made it happen, presiding over one of the most successful, least disruptive social transformations the world has ever seen.
In real life, even more than in ficti
| Erscheinungsdatum | 08.09.2016 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 165 x 237 mm |
| Gewicht | 377 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie |
| Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Schlagworte | Bloomberg • Bolsa Famil¿a • Botswana • Brazil • broken windows policing • Canada • Civil War • climate change • Congress • Corruption • da silva • Enrique Pe¿a Nieto • Fracking • Governance • Government • gridlock • Hydrocarbon • Immigration Reform • Inequality • Islamic extremism • Islamist • Leadership • Lee Kuan Yew • Mexico • Middle income trap • NYPD • Obama • Park Chung-hee • Pierre Trudeau • Poverty • Public Policy • Quebec • Recession • Reform • resource curse • Seretse Khama • shale • Shale Revolution • Singapore • Solutions • South Korea • Syngman Rhee • terrorism • Terrorismus • Weltpolitik • Zukunftsfragen |
| ISBN-13 | 9780451497314 / 9780451497314 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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