Age of Discovery: Navigating the Storms of Our Second Renaissance'A landmark new book.' - The Guardian Age of Discovery looks at the world on the brink of a new Renaissance and asks the question, how do we avoid chaos and disruption, and share more widely the benefits of progress? Now is humanity's best moment. And our most fragile. Global health, wealth and education are booming. Scientific discovery is flourishing. But the same forces that make big gains possible for some of us deliver big losses to others-and tangle us together in ways that make everyone vulnerable. We've been here before. The first Renaissance, the time of Columbus, Copernicus, Gutenberg and others, redrew all maps of the world, liberated information and shifted Western civilization from the medieval to the early modern era. Such change came at a price: social division, political extremism, economic shocks, pandemics and other unintended consequences of human endeavour. Now is our second Renaissance. In the face of terrorism, Brexit, refugee crises and the global impact of a Trump presidency, we can flourish-if we heed the urgent lessons of history. Age of Discovery, revised and updated for this paperback edition, shows us how. |
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User Review - DinadansFriend - LibraryThingThe authors have done their best to draw a number of close parallels between the European Renaissance of 1399 – 1600 CE, and the present set of circumstance currently available to the world’s ... Read full review
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User Review - GoodreadsSociety is presently at a crossroads, despite economic and political problems around the world. Development potential is at a high, technology is changing our world at a breakneck pace and we are in a ... Read full review
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| Title | Age of Discovery: Navigating the Storms of Our Second Renaissance |
| Authors | Ian Goldin, Chris Kutarna |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016 |
| ISBN | 1472936388, 9781472936387 |
| Length | 328 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Development / Economic Development Business & Economics / Economics / General Business & Economics / International / Economics & Trade History / Europe / Renaissance History / Modern / 21st Century History / Social History Political Science / Globalization Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy |
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