An Overheated World: An Anthropological History of the Early Twenty-first Century [Hardcover]

Although economic, cultural and demographic changes are part and parcel of the modern world, changes in a number of areas have accelerated in the last quarter-century  a period sometimes spoken of as the global information society, a world of liquid modernity  or of fully-fledged global neoliberalism associated with deregulation, flexible accumulation and financialisation.