(2008-05-27) Zakaria Post American World

Fareed Zakaria's latest book is Post American World ISBN:9780393062359.

"A set of sensible reforms could be enacted tomorrow," he writes, "to trim wasteful spending and subsidies, increase savings, expand training in science and technology, secure pensions, create a workable immigration process and achieve significant efficiencies in the use of energy. And yet because of politics they appear impossible. A "can-do" country is now saddled with a "do-nothing" political process, designed for partisan battle rather than problem solving." (Public Policy)