Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century

Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge University is Helen Thompson. She is the author of Might, right, prosperity and consent: representative democracy and the global economy, China and the mortgaging of America, and Oil and the western economic crisis (2017). (2008). Helen has been a consistent contributor to the Talking Politics podcast since 2015. She has also written for publications like the London Review of Books, The New York Times, and The Financial Times.

A significant wave of geopolitical, economic, and democratic shocks has come with the 21st century. Their aftermath has caused the creation of more than $25 trillion in new currency by central banks, ushered in a new era of global rivalry, destabilized the Middle East, disintegrated the European Union, and exposed long-hidden political fault lines in the United States.

Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century traces the development of the current political climate across many years. It tells the stories of three historical periods—geopolitics, the global economy, and western democracies—and shows how, during the years of political unrest previous to the pandemic, the disruption in each of these periods coalesced into one major narrative. It demonstrates how much of this turbulence was caused by issues brought on by the use of fossil fuels, and it explains why the long-standing issues that energy always creates will persist when the green transition takes place.

Author: Helen Thompson

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