Powering Prosperity: A Citizen's Guide to Shaping the 21st Century

by Indranil Ghosh

Overview

For better or worse, the choices citizens make today will shape human history for decades to come.

Since the Global Financial Crisis, we have been approaching a crossroad in modern human history. The top 1 percent of people own more than half of the world’s wealth, while hundreds of millions suffer in extreme poverty. Governments quarrel over the politics of environmental policy, even as climate change poses an existential threat to life on the planet. And communities “hollowed out” by the forces of globalization still struggle to stand on their feet.

How can we even begin to contemplate solutions to such immense and persistent problems? In Powering Prosperity: A Citizen’s Guide to Shaping the 21st Century, Dr. Indranil Ghosh brings together his decades of experience as a sustainable economic development investor, an entrepreneur, and an MIT-trained scientist, to provide a new framework for understanding the world’s challenges and the choices societies must make to address them.

Central to Dr. Ghosh’s roadmap for positive change is a more inclusive form of governance, a collaborative model of long-term investment between public and private capital, and the empowerment of local communities to unleash their innovative and entrepreneurial energy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781642933086
Publisher:	Bombardier Books
Publication date:	05/19/2020
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

MIT-trained scientist, Dr. Indranil Ghosh, is an investor, entrepreneur, and advisor to governments around the world. He was Head of Strategy at Mubadala, Abu Dhabi’s Sovereign Wealth Fund, and held senior roles at Bridgewater Associates and McKinsey & Co.

Table of Contents

Preface viii

Chapter 1 Introduction 1

Part I Inclusive Governance

Chapter 2 The Great Trust Crisis 23

Chapter 3 Cohesive Social Contracts 55

Chapter 4 Inclusive Governance 92

Part II Investing with Purpose

Chapter 5 The Sustainable Development Challenge 127

Chapter 6 Development Basics 138

Chapter 7 Three Earths, One Planet 166

Chapter 8 Humans 193

Chapter 9 Long-Term Provisioning 221

Part III Empowering Local Communities

Chapter 10 Local Development 243

Chapter 11 Reforming Globalization 261

Chapter 12 Conclusion: The Citizen's Guide 283

Acknowledgments 292

Endnotes 295