The big stories -- The skills of the new machines : technology races ahead -- Moore's law and the second half of the chessboard -- The digitization of just about everything -- Innovation : declining or recombining?

Amartya Sen, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Science -- Cover.

In the West we've forgotten that creating this system is also what allowed people everywhere to leverage property into wealth.

The Limits to Growth is the nontechnical report of their findings."--Publisher

Looking at this collective fancy in retrospect, Gilbert Rist shows the underlying similarities of its various theories and strategies, and their shared inability to transform the world.

Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe, Davis shows how the ruling elites helped produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. 15 photos. 8 maps.

Martha Nussbaum proposes a kind of feminism that is genuinely international.

Ha-Joon Chang evaluates the role of the state in economics and development. In this collection of essays, he reviews theories and practices of state intervention as they have developed over two centuries of modern capitalism.

Beinhocker has written this work in order to introduce a broad audience to what he believes is a revolutionary new paradigm in economics and its implications for our understanding of the creation of wealth.

The authors of this book challenge prevailing ideas about free markets and globalization.