Ages of Globalization
Ages of Globalization Today's most urgent problems are fundamentally global. But humanity's story has always been on a global scale. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we…
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Ages of Globalization
Today's most urgent problems are fundamentally global. But humanity's story has always been on a global scale. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future.
Sachs, renowned economist and expert on sustainable development, turns to world history to shed light on how we can meet the challenges and opportunities of the twenty-first century.Sachs takes readers through a series of seven distinct waves of technological and institutional change, starting with the original settling of the planet by early modern humans through long-distance migration and ending with reflections on today's globalization. In this book, Jeffrey D. Along the way, he considers how the interplay of geography, technology, and institutions influenced the Neolithic revolution; the role of the horse in the emergence of empires; the spread of large land-based