The Great Disruption: Understanding the Populist Forces Behind Trump, Brexit, and LePen (Hardcover)

List of Figures and Tables ? Preface ? Acknowledgments ? Introduction: Why Populism Is Not Just Trump ? The Economic Roots of Populism, Something Old, Something New ? A Snapshot?Tying Together the Tumultuous Events of 2016?17 ? The Seemingly Paradoxical Nature of Social Values Towards Race and Immigration in the Populist Wave of 2016 ? Empty Rhetoric and Empty Promises?Examining the Phony Solutions of the New Populists ? Underlying Force Number 1: "American Carnage"?A Codeword for Long-term Economic Decline in the West and the Shrinking Middle Class ? Underlying Force Number 2: The Collapse of Manufacturing From Globalization, Financialization, and Automation ? Force Number 3: The Rise of China ? Force Number 4: Rapid Environmental Deterioration ? Force Number 5: Demographics and the Raw Deal Given to Millennials ? Global Problems Need Global Solutions ? Index.