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Ladataan... The Wake-Up Call: Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix ItTekijä: John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge
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The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed that governments matter again, that competent leadership is the difference between living and dying. A few governments proved adept at handling the crisis while many others failed. Are Western governments healthy and strong enough to keep their citizens safe from another virulent virus?and protect their economies from collapse? Is global leadership passing from the United States to Asia?and particularly China? The Wake-Up Call addresses these urgent questions. Journalists and longtime collaborators John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge identify the problems Western leaders face, and outline a detailed plan to help them become more vigilant, better prepared, and responsive to disruptive future events. The problems that face us are enormous; as The Wake-Up Call makes clear, governments around the world must re-engineer the way they operate to successfully meet the challenges ahead. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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I cannot overstate how hyperfocused on “big government” this book is. Early in the book they nickname it Leviathan like its some sort of eldritch beast to be slayed and they are so proud of themselves for coming up with this analogy they use it for the rest of the book. There is certainly a discussion to be had about the inefficiencies of our governments as well their purpose but the authors are mostly focused on how economically inefficient it is to *checks notes* tax the rich to support basic needs of the poor. Which is what this entire book comes down to – they want to pare down the state significantly and all that it does for it’s citizens in some trickle-down effort to get the rich richer (this is obviously not how they would phrase it but I can read between the lines)
Now this book is ostensibly about Covid, right? They are pursuing an East v. West comparison wherein “Asia” (the monolith) has done better than Europe America in dealing with Covid. Well, no. That takes up so little of the book it’s embarrassing they sold the book this way (it was clearly a book they were already writing and they just shoved a chapter about Covid into it and changed the title). This book is first and foremost, about the best states, the west states, and how to Make Them Great Again*
*the authors do look down on Donald Trump and populists of his ilk while simultaneously spouting very similar rhetoric ( )