1st Edition
Runaway World How Globalization is Reshaping Our Lives
By Anthony Giddens
Copyright 2000
138 Pages
by
Routledge
'This little book is full of insights about who we are and where we are going.' - Financial Times
The most accessible book yet by one of the most influential thinkers of our time, Runaway World evaluates the ever-increasing impact of globalization today. Extending his arguments beyond the merely economic, Giddens shows how our growing interdependence directly affects our everyday lives.... Read more
Preface to the second edition, Preface to the first edition, Introduction, 1. Globalisation, 2. Risk, 3. Tradition, 4. Family, 5. Democracy, Selected reading, Index
Biography
Anthony Giddens is the director of the London School of Economics and Political Science and been an advisor to both Tony Blair and Bill Clinton. A cofounder of Polity Press, he is the author of many books including the international bestseller The Third Way. He has seven honorary degrees and has taught at Cambridge, Boston, Harvard, New York and Stanford universities and the University of California, Berkeley and the Sorbonne.
"Intellectually vigorous.full of epigrammatic arguments backed up with just enough evidence." -- Jack Beatty, Atlantic Unbound
"A brilliant primer on a complex subject." -- Newark Star-Ledger
"An accessible look at the aftereffects of globalization." -- Publishers Weekly
