Against the Dead Hand: The Uncertain Struggle for Global Capitalism
(John Wiley & Sons, 2002)
BOOK FORUMTuesday, February 5, 2002
4:00 p.m.
Featuring the author, Brink Lindsey; with comments by Robert Zoellick, U.S. Trade Representative; Sebastian Mallaby, The Washington Post; and Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth College.
The Cato Institute
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Globalization: it's earlier than you think. That's the provocative message of Against the Dead Hand, which traces the rise and fall of the century-long dream of central planning and top-down control, revealing the extent to which the “dead hand” of the old collectivist dream still shapes the contours of today's world economy. Mixing historical narrative, thought-provoking arguments, and on-the-scene reporting and interviews, Brink Lindsey shows how the global economy has grown up amidst the wreckage of collectivism’s failures, detailing how that wreckage constrains the present and obscures the future.