World on Fire How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability

Name: World on Fire How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability
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ISBN: 9780385721868

ISBN-10: 0385721862

ISBN-13: 9780385721868

Edition: 2004

Authors: Amy Chua

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For over a decade now, the reigning consensus has held that the combination of free markets and democracy would transform the third world and sweep away the ethnic hatred and religious zealotry associated with underdevelopment. In this astute, original, and surprising investigation of the true impact of globalization, Yale Law School professor Amy Chua explains why many developing countries are in fact consumed by ethnic violence after adopting free market democracy. Chua shows how in non-Western countries around the globe, free markets have concentrated starkly disproportionate wealth in the hands of a resented ethnic minority. These “market-dominant minorities” – Chinese in Southeast…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/6/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.17" wide x 7.94" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Amy Chua is a professor at Yale Law School and lectures frequently on the effects of gloabalization to government, business, and academic groups around the world. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut.



Introduction: Globalization and Ethnic Hatred


The Economic Impact of Globalization


Rubies and Rice Paddies: Chinese Minority Dominance in Southeast Asia


Llama Fetuses, Latifundia, and La Blue Chip Numero Uno: "White" Wealth in Latin America


The Seventh Oligarch: The Jewish Billionaires of Post-Communist Russia


The "Ibo of Cameroon": Market-Dominant Minorities in Africa


The Political Consequences of Globalization


Backlash against Markets: Ethnically Targeted Seizures and Nationalizations


Backlash against Democracy: Crony Capitalism and Minority Rule


Backlash against Market-Dominant Minorities: Expulsions and Genocide


Mixing Blood: Assimilation, Globalization, and the Case of Thailand


Ethnonationalism and the West


The Underside of Western Free Market Democracy: From Jim Crow to the Holocaust


The Middle Eastern Cauldron: Israeli Jews as a Regional Market-Dominant Minority


Why They Hate Us: America as a Global Market-Dominant Minority


The Future of Free Market Democracy


Afterword


Notes


Index