If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities

by Benjamin R. Barber

Book Overview

Can cities solve the biggest problems of the twenty-first century better than nations? Is the city democracy's best hope?

In the face of the most perilous challenges of our time--climate change, terrorism, poverty, and trafficking of drugs, guns, and people--the nations of the world seem paralyzed. The problems are too big, too interdependent, too divisive for the nation-state. Is the nation-state, once democracy's best hope, today...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300209320
• ISBN13: 9780300209327
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"