EAN: 9780241279168

LEFT BEHIND - PAUL COLLIER GEBUNDEN

The world-renowned economist offers a ground-breaking new vision for inclusive prosperity Left
behind places can be found in prosperous countries-from South Yorkshire  integral to the
industrial revolution and now England's poorest county  to Barranquilla  once Colombia's portal
to the Caribbean and now struggling. More alarmingly  the poorest countries in the world are
diverging further from the rest of humanity than they were at the start of this century. Why
have these places fallen behind? And what can we do about it? World-renowned development
economist Paul Collier has spent his life working in neglected communities. In this book he
offers his candid diagnosis of why some regions and countries are failing  and a new vision for
how they can catch up. Collier lays the blame for widening inequality on stale economic
orthodoxies that prioritize market forces to revive left behind regions  and on the arrogant 
hands-off and one-size fits all approach of centralized bureaucracies like the UK Treasury. As
a result  Collier argues  the UK has become the most unequal and unfair society in the western
world. Yet the core message of Left Behind is hopeful: bringing together encouraging case
studies of recovery from around the world  Collier shows how renewal is achievable through a
combination of collective learning  moral leadership and local agency. With keen insight  he
draws lessons from such seemingly disparate fields as behavioural psychology  evolutionary
biology and moral philosophy to share a bold  galvanizing vision for a more inclusive 
prosperous world.

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