{"id":451230,"date":"2011-06-30T21:06:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T21:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/30\/africa-how-the-west-was-lost-by-dambisa-moyo\/"},"modified":"2011-06-30T21:06:43","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T21:06:43","slug":"africa-how-the-west-was-lost-by-dambisa-moyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/30\/africa-how-the-west-was-lost-by-dambisa-moyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: How the West Was Lost by Dambisa Moyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"50.1890459364\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Macmillan<\/a> (New\u00a0York)<\/p>\n<p>30 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>book listing<\/p>\n<p><em>In <strong>How the West Was Lost<\/strong>, the New York Times bestselling author Dambisa Moyo offers a bold account of the decline of the West\u2019s economic supremacy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She examines how the West\u2019s flawed financial decisions have resulted in an economic and geopolitical seesaw that is now poised to tip in favor of the emerging w orld, especially China.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the hype of China\u2019s rise, however, the most important story of our generation is being pushed aside: America is not just in economic decline, but on course to become the biggest welfare state in the history of the West. The real danger is a thome, Moyo claims. While some countries \u2013 such as Germany and Sweden \u2013 have deliberately engineered and financed welfare states, the United States risks turning itself into a bloated welfare state not because of ideology or a larger vision of economic justice, but out of economic desperation and short-sighted policymaking. How the West Was Lost reveals not only the economic myopia of the West but also the radical solutions that it needs to adopt in order to assert itself as a global economic power once again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Praise<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoyo\u2019s diagnosis of the recent disasters in financial markets is succinct and sophisticated&#8230;I applaud her brave alarm against our economic and social complacency: her core concerns are sufficiently close to painful truths to warrant our attention.\u201d\u2014Paul Collier, The Observer<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe [in the West] have alienated trading partners and are colluding in the decline of our own prosperity, says Moyo, who sets out strategies for weighting the political seesaw back to our advantage.\u201d \u2014Iain Finlayson, The Times<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis argument&#8230;can rarely have been made more concisely&#8230;Moyo is a very serious lady indeed.\u201d\u2014Dominic Lawson, The Times<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sad saga of the recession gives legs to Dambisa Moyo\u2019s provocatively-entitled book, for it goes to the heart of the great economic issue of our times: how swiftly will power shift over this century?\u201d\u2014 Hamish McRae, The Independent<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Dambisa Moyo<\/strong> is the author of <strong>Dead Aid<\/strong>. Born and raised in Lusaka, Zambia, Moyo completed a Ph.D. in economics at Oxford University and holds a master\u2019s from Harvard University\u2019s John F. Kennedy School of Government. She worked for the World Bank as a consultant, and also worked at Goldman Sachs for eight years. In 2009, Time magazine named her one of the \u201c100 most influential people in the world.\u201d Her writing frequently appears in publications including the Financial Times, The Economist, and The Wall Street Journal.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This\u00a0 book was published by <a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/Content.aspx?publisher=fsgadult&#038;id=1173\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Farrar, Straus &#038; Giroux<\/a> which is part of the Macmillan Group.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>See more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106301142.html\" title=\"Africa: How the West Was Lost by Dambisa Moyo\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Africa: How the West Was Lost by Dambisa Moyo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Macmillan (New\u00a0York) 30 June 2011 book listing In How the West Was Lost , the New York Times bestselling author Dambisa Moyo offers a bold account of the decline of the West\u2019s economic supremacy. She examines how the West\u2019s flawed financial decisions have resulted in an economic and geopolitical seesaw that is now poised to tip in favor of the emerging w orld, especially China. Amid the hype of China\u2019s rise, however, the most important story of our generation is being pushed aside: America is not just in economic decline, but on course to become the biggest welfare state in the history of the West. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Africa: How the West Was Lost by Dambisa Moyo - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/30\/africa-how-the-west-was-lost-by-dambisa-moyo\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Africa: How the West Was Lost by Dambisa Moyo - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Macmillan (New\u00a0York) 30 June 2011 book listing In How the West Was Lost , the New York Times bestselling author Dambisa Moyo offers a bold account of the decline of the West\u2019s economic supremacy. 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