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  • Published: 11 April 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141042411
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $24.99
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How The West Was Lost

Fifty Years of Economic Folly - And the Stark Choices Ahead




An economic warning that continues to gain in urgency

We think we know what's coming. But is it already too late?

How the West Was Lost is a wake-up call for all of us. Dambisa Moyo argues that during the last fifty years the most advanced countries on earth have squandered their advantage through fatally flawed policies: obsessing over property, ravenously consuming and building up debt instead of investing. Here Moyo outlines solutions that could help stem the tide. By rethinking many of the things we take for granted, she shows, it may yet be possible for the West to get back into the race.

  • Published: 11 April 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141042411
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $24.99
Categories:

About the author

Dambisa Moyo

Dambisa Moyo is a Global Economist at an Investment Bank in London. She previously worked at the World Bank in Washington DC. A native of Zambia, Southern Africa, Dambisa holds a Doctorate in Economics from Oxford University and a Masters from Harvard University.

Dambisa has spoken on issues of Aid, Debt and Poverty in developing countries at conferences including at the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland in 2005.

Dambisa lives in London. Dead Aid is her first book.

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Praise for How The West Was Lost

Moyo's diagnosis of the recent disasters in financial markets is succinct and sophisticated...I applaud her brave alarum against our economic and social complacency: her core concerns are sufficiently close to painful truths to warrant our attention.

Paul Collier, The Observer

We [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.

Iain Finlayson, The Times

This argument...can rarely have been made more concisely...Moyo is a very serious lady indeed.

Dominic Lawson, The Times

The sad saga of the recession gives legs to Dambisa Moyo's 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?

Hamish McRae, The Independent