World on Fire

出版者:Anchor

作者:Amy Chua

页数:368

出版时间:2004-1-6

价格:USD 17.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780385721868

图书标签:政治globalization全球化democracyEconomics经济社会学国家

For over a decade now, the reigning consensus has held that the combination of free markets and democracy would transform the third world and sweep away the ethnic hatred and religious zealotry associated with underdevelopment. In this astute, original, and surprising investigation of the true impact of globalization, Yale Law School professor Amy Chua explains why many developing countries are in fact consumed by ethnic violence after adopting free market democracy.

Chua shows how in non-Western countries around the globe, free markets have concentrated starkly disproportionate wealth in the hands of a resented ethnic minority. These “market-dominant minorities” – Chinese in Southeast Asia, Croatians in the former Yugoslavia, whites in Latin America and South Africa, Indians in East Africa, Lebanese in West Africa, Jews in post-communist Russia – become objects of violent hatred. At the same time, democracy empowers the impoverished majority, unleashing ethnic demagoguery, confiscation, and sometimes genocidal revenge. She also argues that the United States has become the world’s most visible market-dominant minority, a fact that helps explain the rising tide of anti-Americanism around the world. Chua is a friend of globalization, but she urges us to find ways to spread its benefits and curb its most destructive aspects.

读后感

輸出自由民主市場，這是西方國家進行文明傳播與推廣的一種慣常方式。然而這種方法並不是萬能良方，由於各國的國情不同，這種文明輸出激化了很多發展中國家的矛盾。在《起火的世界》一書中作者蔡愛眉從種族仇恨這個角度入手剖析了該種發展方式所造成的動蕩，並提出了自己的見解...  

全球化、自由、民主、市场，这些字眼很少或极少会与卢旺达大屠杀、阿以冲突以及911联系在一起，然而蔡美儿的这本《起火的世界》却将后者很大程度上归因于前者间的相互作用。 本书的核心论点是，在非西方世界中，市场和民主的全球扩展是集体仇恨与种族暴乱的一个首要的、并使之...  

前些天，巴黎骚乱闹得沸沸扬扬，对于巴黎这样一个充满艺术情趣、文化格调的城市，这场骚乱引起各方争论，国际关系专家、外国学者有不同的分析，正好看到这本书－－《起火的世界:输出自由市场民主酿成种族仇恨和全球动荡》。作者在全书中提出的核心观点是：“非西方世界的民主资...  

一本有材料，有深度，有观点的力作，讨论了以美国为主的西方国家和组织向发展中国家大力输出自由放任的市场经济和普选制的民主政治（这在发达国家是经过长期曲折发展的，并非一蹴而就，且前者已被抛弃）这一“灵丹妙药”，从而加剧了一些发展中国家（存在主导经济的少数族群）...  

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when democracy and free market come together.

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