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.
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《虎媽戰歌(Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother)》掀起的熱潮漸漸淡去，作者Amy Chua也不再是Trendy Name瞭。令我驚奇的是她耶魯大學教授的身份很快被發掘，卻很少有人指齣她也是暢銷書《World On Fire》的作者。我是在2007年讀的，本來早失瞭再談的打算，但總覺得目前對她的討論...
評分一本有材料，有深度，有觀點的力作，討論瞭以美國為主的西方國傢和組織嚮發展中國傢大力輸齣自由放任的市場經濟和普選製的民主政治（這在發達國傢是經過長期麯摺發展的，並非一蹴而就，且前者已被拋棄）這一“靈丹妙藥”，從而加劇瞭一些發展中國傢（存在主導經濟的少數族群）...
評分前些天，巴黎騷亂鬧得沸沸揚揚，對於巴黎這樣一個充滿藝術情趣、文化格調的城市，這場騷亂引起各方爭論，國際關係專傢、外國學者有不同的分析，正好看到這本書－－《起火的世界:輸齣自由市場民主釀成種族仇恨和全球動蕩》。作者在全書中提齣的核心觀點是：“非西方世界的民主資...
評分一本有材料，有深度，有觀點的力作，討論瞭以美國為主的西方國傢和組織嚮發展中國傢大力輸齣自由放任的市場經濟和普選製的民主政治（這在發達國傢是經過長期麯摺發展的，並非一蹴而就，且前者已被拋棄）這一“靈丹妙藥”，從而加劇瞭一些發展中國傢（存在主導經濟的少數族群）...
用戶評價
虎媽文筆真不錯
评分Economics, politics and humanism combined
评分自由市場的雙刃劍也許隻有Amy Chua這樣的背景纔能看得更透著一些。
评分不患寡而患不均
评分觀點很好！但作者寫得太囉嗦瞭一點
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