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Wrecking Ball - Why permanent technological unemployment, a predictable pandemic and other wicked problems will end South Africa's experiment in inclusive democracy (Paperback)
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Wrecking Ball - Why permanent technological unemployment, a predictable pandemic and other wicked problems will end South Africa's experiment in inclusive democracy (Paperback)
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Wrecking Ball explores, in an unprecedented manner, a decalogue of
wicked problems that confronts humanity: Nuclear proliferation,
climate change, pandemics, permanent technological unemployment,
Orwellian public and private surveillance, social media that
distorts reality, cyberwarfare, the fragmentation of democracies,
the inability of nations to cabin private power, the failure of
multinational institutions to promote collaboration and the
deepening of autocratic rule in countries that have never known
anything but extractive institutions. Collectively, or even
severally, these wicked problems constitute crises that could end
civilisation. Does this list frighten you, or do you blithely
assume that tomorrow will be just like yesterday? Wrecking Ball
shows that without an inclusive system of global governance, the
collective action required to solve those wicked problems falls
beyond the remit of the world's 20 inclusive democracies, 50 flawed
democracies and 130 extractive, elitist autocracies. Flawed
democracies and autocracies that already struggle to produce goods
necessary for their own citizens to flourish, are simply incapable
of committing to international arrangements that address the
existential threats posed by the decalogue of wicked problems. This
then is our children's inheritance: Dystopias far, far worse than
the polities that we ourselves have known. What, if anything, can
mitigate the harms that are our legacy? Wrecking Ball offers, as an
answer, a ground-breaking analysis of South Africa's political
economy. It demonstrates that this country's elitist and extractive
political and economic institutions not only make resolution of
ongoing domestic crises unattainable, likewise, they make
meaningful responses to wicked problems impossible. Smart people
think they have all the answers. Without laboring under any such
illusions, Martin Luther King Jr eloquently opined: 'The arc of the
moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.' But what
will happen, King would acidly ask, if we continue to dawdle, and
simply run out of time? Wrecking Ball similalry operates under no
such 'smart' pretenses, and undeterred and unmatched ventures into
terrrains traversed by truly great political economists: Smith,
Ricardo, Marx and Keynes. By knitting together what we all know to
be the facts, with cutting edge theory in economics, sociology,
history and political science, the book paints an unflinching
portrait of where we are, and where we are headed. Are we ready to
be honest with ourselves about the likely future of this
overheated, overpopulated planet?
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