For over a decade now, the reigning consensus has held that the combination of free markets and democracy would transform the third world and sweep away the ethnic hatred and religious zealotry associated with underdevelopment. In this astute, original, and surprising investigation of the true impact of globalization, Yale Law School professor Amy Chua explains why many developing countries are in fact consumed by ethnic violence after adopting free market democracy.
Chua shows how in non-Western countries around the globe, free markets have concentrated starkly disproportionate wealth in the hands of a resented ethnic minority. These “market-dominant minorities” – Chinese in Southeast Asia, Croatians in the former Yugoslavia, whites in Latin America and South Africa, Indians in East Africa, Lebanese in West Africa, Jews in post-communist Russia – become objects of violent hatred. At the same time, democracy empowers the impoverished majority, unleashing ethnic demagoguery, confiscation, and sometimes genocidal revenge. She also argues that the United States has become the world’s most visible market-dominant minority, a fact that helps explain the rising tide of anti-Americanism around the world. Chua is a friend of globalization, but she urges us to find ways to spread its benefits and curb its most destructive aspects.
《虎妈战歌(Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother)》掀起的热潮渐渐淡去,作者Amy Chua也不再是Trendy Name了。令我惊奇的是她耶鲁大学教授的身份很快被发掘,却很少有人指出她也是畅销书《World On Fire》的作者。我是在2007年读的,本来早失了再谈的打算,但总觉得目前对她的讨论...
评分看了货币战争,简直是震撼了。和别的读友一起交流了一下,结果他们建议我再去读一下这个起火的世界,是对货币战争这本书介绍的西方的经济政策和现状有个更详细的了解。 这本书论点不错,但是作者对自己论点的论述,总有点美国的霸权的态度,太武断。很多例子和说明作者可以引用...
评分一本有材料,有深度,有观点的力作,讨论了以美国为主的西方国家和组织向发展中国家大力输出自由放任的市场经济和普选制的民主政治(这在发达国家是经过长期曲折发展的,并非一蹴而就,且前者已被抛弃)这一“灵丹妙药”,从而加剧了一些发展中国家(存在主导经济的少数族群)...
评分【新书评】 一般而言,语词的确认和概念的推销,背后的主宰无非是“金钱-权力”。然而有趣的是,这本书提供了一个精心构思的命题:金钱+权力之于少数族群-多数族群,并非总是依照一种普世的配对模式:在一些国家,少数族群往往是“外来者”,他们掌握了金钱和市场,却沦为民主...
评分看了货币战争,简直是震撼了。和别的读友一起交流了一下,结果他们建议我再去读一下这个起火的世界,是对货币战争这本书介绍的西方的经济政策和现状有个更详细的了解。 这本书论点不错,但是作者对自己论点的论述,总有点美国的霸权的态度,太武断。很多例子和说明作者可以引用...
不患寡而患不均
评分Economics, politics and humanism combined
评分观点很好!但作者写得太啰嗦了一点
评分少数族裔控制经济命脉实在是市场经济的致命缺陷啊。。。。。。
评分自由市场的双刃剑也许只有Amy Chua这样的背景才能看得更透着一些。
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