Consequences

In Consequences: The Rise of a Fractured World Order, a team of experienced finance, economics, and business experts delivers an engaging, insightful, and timely discussion of the challenges facing liberal democracies. The authors explain the sources of those challenges and how they impact the ability of contemporary democracies to confront the dangers posed by autocrats, autocracies, and autocratic behavior. Over the course of the book, Priest, Roche, and Michailoff identify the structural flaws inherent to both democracies and autocracies, as well as how those flaws are exploited by the latter against the former. You'll learn how modern, representative governments can protect against these attacks by ensuring that wealth is effectively created and equitably distributed. You'll also explore the importance of the democratic tools used by voters, investors, and citizens and how to deploy them most effectively in society. Consequences carefully examines the end of the liberal world order and post-cold war historical shifts. It focuses particularly on the threat to democracy posed by a wide range of populist politics, philosophies, and tactics. The book also analyzes the likelihood that contemporary political actors will be able to effectively reform our economics and politics, as well as the steps we can all take if those efforts fail. An incisive and eye-opening resource for executives, investors, policymakers, and regulators, Consequences is a must-read for everyone interested in everything that's happening in the dynamic intersection of politics, economics, markets, and international relations.