""No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.""
--Adam Smith, "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 1776."

In "Interdependent Economy," author Liem Gok In investigates the causes of today's imbalanced world economy. In her analysis, she frees macro-economic thinking from the straitjacket of the micro-logic of growth, opening up a whole new space where policy proposals can unfold. Furthermore, she does not hold up any one economic system as the ideal, but proves that people of various...