The Fix: How Nations Survive and Thrive in a World in Decline
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (837 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1101902981 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Abraham G. said Important and enjoyable.. In his articles in Foreign Affairs and the Atlantic, Tepperman always manages to make complicated political issues understandable and interesting, without dumbing them down or losing their complexity. In the Fix, Tepperman achieves that difficult balancing act over the course of an entire book, which covers seve. suggested for aspiring leaders and those already leading This book gives practical examples of how issues such as poverty, insecurity and other governance related problems were tackled with a r e verifiable examples. Canada's successful immigration policy, Brazil's attempt to reduce poverty, Singapore's journey away from corruption, Indonesia's struggle with fundament. Superficial and bias Augusto Perez Gomez It pretends to explain how the problems of inequality, immigration, Islamic extremists, civil war corruption etc were solved in many countries but end up describing their leaders and not their solutions.
Jonathan Tepperman is the managing editor of Foreign Affairs. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic. After growing up in Canada, he studied English at Yale and law at Oxford and NYU. . He lives in Brooklyn with his family
The heady promise of the Arab Spring has given way to repression, civil war, and an epic refugee crisis. We are living in an age of unprecedented, irreversible decline—or so we’re constantly being told. Jonathan Tepperman’s The Fix presents a very different picture. Congress could learn about compromise and conciliation from its counterpart in Mexico. Tepperman has traveled the world to write this book, conducting more than a hundred interviews with the people behind the policies. He flips conventional political wisdom on its head, showing, for example, how much the U.S. It identifies ten pervasive and seemingly impossible challenges—including immigration reform, economic stagnation, political gridlock, corruption, and Islamist extremism—and shows that, c
The Fix makes an acute point in its attempt to recover a lost sense of optimism.” —The Financial Times“Just when it looks like the world’s problems couldn’t get much worse, The Fix cuts through the gloom like a ray of sunshine. Tepperman combines old-fashioned reporting, storytelling, and social science to create a roadmap for solving today's great problems, from radicalism to inequality to political paralysis. If you care about understanding the world or improving it, this book is not to be missed. Tepperman makes a compelling case, in lively and personal prose, that strong leaders willing to forsake political orthodoxy for good ideas can actually solve the toughest problems the world faces. Governments from Brazil to Canada to Indonesia have successfully tackled prob