How the West was lost fifty years of economic folly--and the stark choices ahead

ISBN: 9781553659273 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1553659279 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource remote 1 online resource (316 p.)
Publisher: New York : Douglas &amp; McIntyre, 2011.

Summary: A bold account of the decline of the West's economic supremacy and radical solutions to reverse the drift. Bestselling author Dambisa Moyo gives a fresh insider's perspective on the erosion of Western power over the past 50 years. She examines how the West's flawed financial decisions and blinkered political and military choices have resulted in an economic and geopolitical seesaw that is now poised to favour the emerging world. Moyo is uniquely positioned to examine the West's errors and the techniques the emerging countries used to rise on the global economic stage:.