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In the midst of a worldwide social and economic crisis, john ralston saul revisits the role of globalism in 1999, saul began arguing that globalism was collapsing in 2005, he laid out this scenario in the collapse of globalism now saul has enlarged the book, showing how today’s crisis came about and suggesting what to do next in this new edition, saul describes the financial crisis as a mere boil to be lanced the far more serious problem is that the west remains stuck on outdated ideas of growth, wealth creation and trade expansion whereas public policy is still dominated by the people who created this crisis, saul envisions a new sort of wealth creation and growth, and advocates new forms of action declared a “prophet” by time magazine, saul offers prescient insights into today’s global crisis
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John Ralston Saul’s philosophical trilogy— Voltaire’s Bastards, The Doubter’s Companion and The Unconscious Civilization—has had a growing impact on political thought in many countries. The conclusion to this trilogy, On Equilibrium—an exploration of the six qualities of the new humanism—is a persuasive and groundbreaking exploration of the human struggle for personal and social balance.
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Mr. Saul has written five novels, including The Birds of Prey and The Field Trilogy. These works deal with the crisis of modern power and its clash with the individual. Like his non-fiction, his novels have been translated into many languages.
He has received many national and international awards for his work. The Unconscious Civilization won the 1996 Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction, as well as the Gordon Montador Award for Best Canadian Book on Social Issues. His reinterpretation of the nature of Canada, Reflections of a Siamese Twin, also won a Montador Award and was chosen by Maclean’s magazine as one of the ten best non-fiction books of the twentieth century. His novel The Paradise Eater won the Premio Lettarario Internazionale in Italy. Most recently he received the Pablo Neruda Medal in celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Neruda’s birth.
Mr. Saul was born in Ottawa and studied at McGill University and the University of London, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1972.
John Ralston Saul is Canada’s leading public intellectual. Declared a “prophet” by Time magazine, Saul has received many awards and prizes, including Chile’s Pablo Neruda Medal. He is president of PEN International, an organization dedicated to freedom of expression. He has published fourteen works, which have been translated into twenty-five languages in thirty-six countries, the most recent of which is The Comeback, an examination of the remarkable return to power of Aboriginal people in Canada. Saul lives in Toronto.
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- PublisherPenguin Books India Pvt Ltd
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0144000474
- ISBN 13 9780144000470
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