THE SHARED SOCIETY: A VISION FOR THE GLOBAL FUTURE OF LATIN AMERICA

Book ID/图书代码： 08900014B73891

English Summary/英文概要： Latin America has undergone a major transformation in the past two decades. According to the United Nations, with the discovery of new oil and mineral deposits and increases in energy exports, manufacturing and tourism, Latin America’s economic growth and development will only continue, foreign investment will increase, and the region’s global influence will become greater and greater. This is an historic opportunity for Latin America. Yet, the enormous economic and political progress being made could be halted by social strife. The environment could be compromised in favor of unsustainable growth and greed. Economic growth rates could slow and democracy could deteriorate into familiar forms of authoritarian populism. In this book, Stanford economist Alejandro Toledo, whose tenure as president of Peru helped spur this economic renaissance, develops a plan for a future Latin America in which its population is not only much better off economically than today, but in which the vast forty percent of Latin America’s poor and marginalized are incorporated into a rising middle class, democratic institutions work more effectively, and the extraordinary ecosystem of Latin America is preserved. This is Toledo’s vision for a just, sustainable, and prosperous shared society. To achieve this, Toledo lays out a set of principles and concrete, implementable ideas with which Latin Americans can reinvent themselves as a leading force for change in a continuously globalizing society beset by inequalities and global problems such as climate change and shortages of clean drinkable water, unstable food security, human rights violations and weak democratic institutions. Toledo argues that only extraordinary efforts of vision, determination, courage and inspired leadership will set Latin America on the path to inclusive development, and this book provides a visionary manifesto and invaluable blueprint for creating that ideal shared society.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 过去二十年中，拉丁美洲承受了一次重大改变。根据联合国消息，随着新石油和矿产的发现，以及能源出口、制造业和旅游业的增加，拉丁美洲的经济增长和发展将会继续保持，外国投资也将增加，地区的全球化影响将会越来越大。这对拉丁美洲是一个历史性的机遇。然而，巨大的经济和政治进展可能会被社会冲突所打断，环境也会对不可持续的增长和贪婪妥协，经济增长率下降，平民主义可能恶化为普遍形式的权力性平民主义。此书中，斯坦福经济学家托莱多，这位帮助刺激了这次经济的复苏的秘鲁总统，提出了对未来拉丁美洲的一个伟大构想——拉美公民将不仅仅是经济上的巨大提升，更是超过百分之四十的的广大贫困阶级和社会发展边缘的民众将被纳入一个崛起的中产阶级，民主制度的运作更为有效，并且拉丁美洲非凡的生态环境也能很好的保存下来——这便是托莱多对一个合理的、可持续发展的、共同繁荣的社会的美好愿景。为了实现这一目标，托莱多勾画出了一套原则和具体的、可实现的想法，使拉美可以自我改造成为在不断全球化、被不平等和气候变化、清洁饮用水短缺、食品安全不稳定、侵犯人权、民主制度薄弱等全球问题所困扰的社会中引导变革的一股主导力量。托莱多认为，只有非凡的愿景、决心、勇气和鼓舞人心的领导力才能引导拉丁美洲走上全面发展的道路，而这本书便提供了创建一个理想的共享社会的具有远见性的宣言和宝贵的蓝图。(LNL)

Awards/获奖情况："Alejandro Toledo makes the critical observation that Latin America cannot secure its democracy unless it simultaneously improves the quality of governance and meets the ever-rising expectations of the region’s populations. He offers many wise suggestions for how to meet what will be the critical challenge of the 21st century."--Francis Fukuyama, author of "Political Order and Political Decay"

About the Author/作者介绍： 托莱多，2001-2006年期间任职秘鲁总统，任职期间，美国参议院对其政治表现给予了高度评价；是华盛顿特区全球发展与民主中心的创始人兼主席；曾在世界银行和联合国任职；在哈佛大学和约翰霍普斯金大学担任过国际事务方面的访问学者，并且是斯坦福大学和美国布鲁金斯学会的资深研究员。

Alejandro Toledo served as the President of Peru from 2001-2006 and has been honored by the U.S. Senate for his policies during that tenure. The Founder and President of the Global Center for Development and Democracy in Washington, DC, Toledo has worked for the World Bank and the United Nations, and has been a Visiting Scholar in International Affairs at Harvard University and Johns Hopkins University and a Senior Fellow at Stanford University and the Brookings Institution.

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：English language in North America, Stanford University Press, March 2015

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