By Gillian Hadfield

ISBN-10: 0199916527

ISBN-13: 9780199916528

the floor is moving underneath our toes. expertise and globalization proceed to uproot and reshape lifestyle and economics. worldwide offer chains are turning out to be extra deeply embedded in each quarter of the area. electronic systems attach billions round the planet in ever extra advanced networks of information and alternate. In 2005, Thomas Friedman lowered those phenomena to at least one word, the name of his hugely winning book: the area is Flat.

The flat international is one among super risk, however it additionally poses new demanding situations to balance and shared prosperity. How do we get a hold of the recent ideas we have to ascertain we proceed to innovate and develop but additionally turn into a fairer, more secure, and extra inclusive worldwide neighborhood? legislations and economics professor Gillian ok. Hadfield alternatives up the place Friedman's publication left off, peeling again the technological layer to examine the guideline structures that advisor international integration-our felony infrastructure-and argues that our current techniques to creating ideas are not any longer operating. they aren't merely too gradual, expensive, and localized for more and more complicated complicated economies. Our principles additionally fail to handle looming demanding situations reminiscent of poverty, instability, and oppression for the 4 billion dwelling in negative and constructing nations, principally outdoors of any formal criminal framework.

Following a wealthy and sweeping review of the long term evolution of social ideas that made advanced human societies and financial interdependence attainable, Hadfield makes the case for construction a extra agile market-based and globally-oriented felony infrastructure. Combining a magnificent grab of up to date fiscal globalization with an formidable re-envisioning of our international criminal approach, Rules for a Flat World will remodel our figuring out of the way to top in attaining a extra sustainable and colourful international economy.

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