Alan Greenspan was born in 1926 and reared in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. After studying the clarinet at Juilliard and working as a professional musician, he earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from New York University. In 1954, he cofounded the economic consulting firm Townsend-Greenspan & Co. From 1974 to 1977, he served as chair of the Council of Economic Advisors under President Gerald Ford. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan appointed him chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, a position he held until his retirement in 2006.
Did Alan Greenspan decimate the middle class and widen the wealth gap?
Did he corrupt the Federal Reserve and bring crony capitalism into it?
Did he bankrupt the US Government and cause tsunamis in equities and property markets?
All these questions are left to historians and economists.
Many would know this book is about GLOBALIZATION: there are 10 "flattening" effects and they converge in various situations.
Is it posing a threat or providing opportunities to us?
What do those Sept 11, in 1989 when Berlin Wall fell, in 1991 when George HW Bush coined the "New World Order" in the State of Union, and in 2001 when more than 3 thousand innocent lives were lost to a terrorist attack, reveal to us under this globalization context?
There's an inspiring African proverb/ wise saying:
Every morning lions have to make sure they run faster than gazelles so that the former won't fall prey to the latter, or the former will get killed.
Every morning gazelles have to make sure they run faster than lions which can be their breakfast, or they will starve to death.
Under this globalization, nations are in the same relationship between lions and gazelles: to kill or get killed, or to have or not to have, that is the question every day we face.
Anyway, if you don't go with the flattening effects, the Globalization Express is going to flatten you fair and square.
Find out why deadly diseases are bred into our genetic code - and learn the answers to such provocative questions as:
* Can a person rust to death? * Can sunglasses cause sunburns? * Why do we need to pee when we’re cold? * Can the tanning salon lower cholesterol? * Who gets drunk faster-Europeans or Asians? And why? * Why are African-Americans more prone to hypertension?
Survival of the Sickest reveals the answers to these and many other questions as it unravels the amazing connections between evolution, disease, and human health today.
This book turns our current understanding of illness on its head and challenges us to fundamentally change the way we think about our bodies, our health, and our relationship to just about every other living thing on earth - from plants and animals to insects and bacteria.
This revelatory book explains how, especially when you take the evolutionary long-view, many diseases are really complicated blessings, not simple curses. Survival of the Sickest answers the riddles behind many diseases that seem to be inexplicably wired into our genetic code, starting with the biggest riddle of them all: If natural selection is supposed to get rid of harmful genetic traits, why are hereditary diseases so common?
Through a fresh and engaging examination of our evolutionary history, Dr. Sharon Moalem reveals how many of the conditions that we think of as diseases today actually gave our ancestors a leg up in the survival sweepstakes. When the option is a long life with a disease or a short one without it, evolution opts for the long ball every time.
Survival of the Sickest explores earth, history, and the human genome to discover how environmental, cultural, and genetic differences shaped us through evolution and continue to play an active role in our health today.
Everything from the climate our ancestors lived in, to the crops they planted and ate, to their beverage of choice can be seen in our genetic inheritance. But Survival of the Sickest doesn't stop there – it goes on to demonstrate just how little modern medicine really understands about human health, and offers a new way of thinking that can help all of us live longer, healthier lives.
Survival of the Sickest is filled with fascinating insights and cutting-edge research, presented in a way that is both accessible and utterly absorbing. This is a book about the interconnectedness of all life on earth – and, especially, what that means for us.
Posts
