Brink Lindsey

Brink Lindsey exposes the broad cultural impact of our world's recent shift from subsistence to abundance. Members of developed economies are now able to pursue fulfillment instead of food, and to struggle with sources of angst that would be considered ridiculous by any previous generation. The Aquarian counter-culture of the 60's and 70's was only possible in the context of the new abundance. Downstream effects persist today, some the opposite of what the reactionaries ever intended. Overall, our politics are now relatively moderate, driven by relative comfort for the bulk of voters and an underlying libertarianism recognizable in fact more than in name.… (meer)

This is the book to read about globalization to understand its role and and relationship with economic progress. Brink Lindsey from the Cato Institute has written a thoughtful history of the demise of the central-planning mentality even while its' "dead hand" still exerts significant pressure on much of the world's economy. Both thorough in its historical detail and incisive in its analysis this book challenges those who claim that globalization is inevitable. The continuing specter of central planning as represented by the "dead hand" of the "counter-industrial revolution will only be vanquished with continued expansion of free trade and free enterprise wherever it is currently in abeyance.… (meer)