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The Butterfly Defect
How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks, and What to Do about It
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Ideal for readers interested in globalisation, systemic risk, economics, and public policy, including professionals, academics, and informed individuals seeking a deeper understanding of how interconnected global systems affect future stability and growth.
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See moreGlobal hyperconnectivity and increased system integration have led to vast benefits, including worldwide growth in incomes, education, innovation, and technology. Drawing on insights from a wide variety of disciplines, the authors provide guidance for how governments, businesses, and individuals can better manage risk in our contemporary world.
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The Butterfly Defect addresses the widening gap between the new systemic risks generated by globalisation and their effective management. It shows how the dynamics of turbo-charged globalisation have the potential and power to destabilise our societies.
Drawing on the latest insights from a wide variety of disciplines, Ian Goldin and Mike Mariathasan provide practical guidance for how governments, businesses, and individuals can better manage globalisation and risk. Goldin and Mariathasan demonstrate that systemic risk issues are now endemic everywhereβin supply chains, pandemics, infrastructure, ecology, climate change, economics, and politics.
Unless we address these concerns, they will lead to greater protectionism, xenophobia, nationalism, and, inevitably, deglobalisation, rising inequality, conflict, and slower growth. The Butterfly Defect shows that mitigating uncertainty and risk in an interconnected world is an essential task for our future.
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Finalist for the 2015 Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize, the book is praised for its clear, jargon-free prose and cohesive arguments. Professor Robert J. Shiller highlighted its important insight that global systems behave like an interconnected meteorological system, making crises unpredictable. The Financial Times calls it "important and thought-provoking," while Library Journal notes its wide relevance across sectors. Reviewers commend the well-structured chapters and practical examples illuminating systemic risk and globalisation's challenges.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780691154701
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 11 May 2014
Country: United States
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Illustration: 45 line illus. 5 tables.
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 235.0mm
Weight: 567g
Pages: 320
About the Author
Ian Goldin is director of the Oxford Martin School and professor of globalization and development at the University of Oxford. He has served as vice president of the World Bank and advisor to President Nelson Mandela. His many books include "Divided Nations", "Globalization for Development", and "Exceptional People" (Princeton). Mike Mariathasan is assistant professor of finance at the University of Vienna.
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