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22 Ideas to Fix the World: Conversations with the World''s Foremost Thinkers
ISBN: 9781479897506
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / NYU Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Social problems; Social change; Economics; Civilization Modern -- 21st century;

Political scientists Dutkiewicz and Sakwa present conversations with 23 leading social scientists about stressors facing the international financial system. The sections are often short on specifics and rely on highly abstract arguments. The specialists come from a variety of regions and backgrounds, but the majority espouse some form of heterodox or socialist economics. Some focus on their own particular hobby horses; Immanuel Wallerstein is content to discuss the decline of American hegemony but what he's really interested in is the hyphen in ‘world-systems analysis': "[I]t's taken me twenty or thirty years to get people to understand how important the hyphen really is." Mike Davis, meanwhile, argues that: "We stand on the precipice of a synchronized global recession that may yet dwarf the 1930s," while Peter Katznelson contends that "[w]e are all more or less blind, trying to figure out whether the trunk of the elephant is its tail." More than any of the ideas presented, one factor makes this book stand out: none of the "world's foremost thinkers" are women. (Oct.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Piotr Dutkiewicz is Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Center for Governance and Public Policy at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.Sakwa Richard :

Richard Sakwa is Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent and an Associate Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House.