Author: SERVAN-SCHREIBER, JEAN-JACQUES
Title: The World Challenge
Description: London, Collins. 1981, First Edition. (ISBN: 0002168782). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK edition. A Fine copy in Fine but price clipped dustjacket. The journalist, ex politician and economist confronts the most important crisis of our generation, analysing it's roots and offering a challenging blueprint for our survival. He puts his finger on the problem, more prevalent now, of the effect of more expensive energy and the technological revolution on our declining economies; the historical forces that have led OPEC countries to seek, in the rise of oil prices, compensation and revenge for generations of exploitation and poverty; the despair of the Third World which has neither oil, industry nor capital; the former industrial giants such as the USA seeing their immense wealth drained by the cost of oil, their technological supremacy lost. An important and far seeing work which belies todays world situation. NOT EX LIB 12. Fine/Fine.

Keywords: Economics, Effects of Energy Price Increases, Third World Poverty 0002168782


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