Get Hold Of Facing Up To Low Productivity Growth Composed By Adam Posen Accessible In Readable Copy

thought provoking book whose aim is to address the consequences and not the causes of low productivity.


The first Fiscal Implications and second International Implications sections are routine, The third section Implications for Wages, Distribution, and Politics is outstanding and leaves one with many important questions concerning how advanced economies address increasing inequality in an era of lower growth and productivity not to mention heightened political polarization and identity politics.


Worth a read, Today, weather extremes brought about by anthropogenic climate change pose relentless cognitive and imaginative challenges, Beyond news media, what are the cultural registers of this phenomenon How can artistic and literary engagements with destabilizing natural patterns summon new planetary imaginariesreorienting perspectives on humanity's position within the environment

A Year Without a Winter brings together science fiction, history, visual art, and exploration.
Inspired by the literary 'dare' that would give birth to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein amidst the aftermath of a massive volcanic eruption, and today, by the utopian architecture of Paolo Soleri and the Arizona desert, expeditions to Antarctica and Indonesia, this collection reframes the relationship among climate, crisis, and creation.

Theeruption of Mount Tambora, on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa, enveloped the globe in a cloud of ash, causing a climate crisis.
By, remembered as the 'year without a summer, ' the northern hemisphere was plunged into cold and darkness.
Amidst unseasonal frosts, violent thunderstorms, and a general atmosphere of horror, Shelley began a work of science fiction that continues to shape attitudes to emerging science, technology, and environmental futures.
Two hundred years later, in, the hottest year on historical record, four renowned science fiction authors were invited to the experimental town of Arcosanti, Paolo Soleri's prototype for arcology, to respond to our present crisis.
A Year Without a Winter presents their stories

alongside critical essays, extracts from Shelley's masterpiece, and dispatches from expeditions to extreme geographies.
Broad and ambitious in scope, this book is a collective thought experiment retracing an inverted path through narrative extremes.


Contributors include Dehlia Hannah, Gillen D'Arcy Wood, James Graham, Hilairy Hartnett, David Higgins, Nadim Samman, Julian Charrire, Karolina Sobecka, Mary Shelley, Vandana Singh, Nnedi Okorafor, Tobias Buckell, Nancy Kress, Cynthia Selin, Joey Eschrich, and Brenda Cooper.
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