The Upside of Down, Charles Kenny
The Upside of Down, Charles Kenny
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The Upside of Down
Why the Rise of the Rest is Good for the West

Author: Charles Kenny

Narrator: Tim Andres Pabon

Unabridged: 6 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 02/01/2014

Synopsis

America is in decline, and the rise of the East suggests a bleak future for the world’s only superpower – so goes the conventional wisdom. But what if the traditional measures of national status are no longer as important as they once were? What if America’s well-being was assessed according to entirely different factors?

In The Upside of Down, Charles Kenny argues that America’s so-called decline is only relative to the newfound success of other countries. And there is tremendous upside to life in a wealthier world: Americans can benefit from better choices and cheaper prices offered by schools and hospitals in rising countries, and, without leaving home, avail themselves of the new inventions and products those countries will produce. The key to thriving in this world is to move past the jeremiads about America’s deteriorating status and figure out how best to take advantage of its new role in a multipolar world. A refreshing antidote to prophecies of American decline, The Upside of Down offers a fresh and highly optimistic look at America’s future in a wealthier world.

About Charles Kenny

Charles Kenny is a writer-researcher at the Center for Global Development and has worked on policy reforms in global health as well as UN peacekeeping and combating international financial corruption. Previously, he spent fifteen years as an economist at the World Bank, travelling the planet from Baghdad and Kabul to Brasilia and Beijing. He is the author of The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease, Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding and How We Can Improve the World Even More, and The Upside of Down: Why the Rise of the Rest Is Great for the West. He earned a history degree at Cambridge and has graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins, the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and Cambridge.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Charlene on February 20, 2017

Globalization is inevitable. Kenny makes and argument for why that is a good thing. I read this right before reading about tree networks. It turns out that in trees, while there is competition, it serves trees for whole forests to be healthy. I couldn't help but think back to the arguments made by K......more

Goodreads review by Robert on April 15, 2014

The Upside of Down--Why the Rise of the Rest is Good for the West by Charles Kenny makes the persuasive case that: --Countries like China and India will have larger economies than the U.S. in coming decades because their populations and economic momentum is much greater; --Immigration is a good thin......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on January 29, 2016

This is a book that goes against the grain... Immigration is good, the non-West getting rich (when the relative standing of the West drops) is good. It is a sensible book, though it is going to be an extremely difficult sell to people and towns that are devastated by off-shoring and people whose job......more

Goodreads review by Pete on November 04, 2014

The Upside of Down: Why the Rise of the Rest is Good for the West (2014) by Charles Kenny is an optimistic look at how the changing centre of global economic activity is good for the West and the US in particular. Kenny also states what should be done so that the transition to a world where the West......more

Goodreads review by Jason on January 28, 2015

Listened to this book via Hoopla. I'd highly recommend the title - it's got great examples from economics and politics and constructs an excellent narrative about a topic that many people aren't well educated about. There are a lot of assumptions floating around western culture that this book puts a......more

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