The J Curve : A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall

President Ian Bremmer
Simon & Schuster
9780743274722
0-7432-7472-5

What Freakonomics does for understanding the economy, The J Curve does for better understanding how nations behave. Bremmer's tour of the nations of the world -- our friends, our foes, and others in between.

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-- shows us how to see the world fresh, get rid of shopworn attitudes, and discover a new and useful way of thinking.