Values

Building a Better World for All

By: Mark Carney

Narrated by: Mark Carney

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Winner of the 2021 National Business Book Award • Shortlisted for the 2021 Donner Prize

A bold and urgent argument by the Prime Minister of Canada and former bank governor on the radical, foundational change that is required if we are to build an economy and society based not on market values but on human values.

Our world is full of fault lines—growing inequality in income and opportunity; systemic racism; health and economic crises from a global pandemic; mistrust of experts; the existential threat of climate change; deep threats to employment in a digital economy with robotics on the rise. These fundamental problems and others like them, argues Mark Carney, stem from a common crisis in values. Drawing on the turmoil of the past decade, Mark Carney shows how “market economies” have evolved into “market societies” where price determines the value of everything.

When we think about what we, as individuals, value most highly, we might list fairness, health, the protection of our rights, economic security from poverty, the preservation of natural diversity, resources, and beauty. The tragedy is, these things that we hold dearest are too often the casualties of our twenty-first century world, where they ought to be our bedrock.

In this profoundly important new book, Mark Carney offers a vision of a more humane society and a practical manifesto for getting there. How we reform our infrastructure to make things better and fairer is at the heart of every chapter, with outlines of wholly new ideas that can restructure society and enshrine our human values at the core of all that we build for our children and grandchildren.

A thoughtful presentation of the importance of finance

l Liked his manner of explanation regarding the role of finance in general and his particular examples.

A cogent and common sense case for modern economies

It’s easy to listen to and is importantly messaging for 2025 while the world redesigns the global trade

Great insights to Carney from before he became Prime Minister

Carney’s intelligence and basic human decency come through clearly, though the odd chapter here and there are heavy going for non-economists like me. His technique of explaining the current state of the world by discussing the history of ideas like capitalism make for entertaining reading and deep understanding. The more I read the more confident I became that Canada has chosen well in placing our trust in the man, especially given the chaos to the south. I’d especially recommend this to skeptics of his government. This man is very very different from his predecessor.

Excelente contenido

Me gustó su claridad, el poder de las ideas que comparte, la bibliografía que integra. Poderoso

boring and pointless

There is nothing interesting about this book. I kept on waiting for it to make some sort of interesting point. I tried to get through it, I really did. Don't waste time on it. In fact, I have come to the realization that writing a book this boring is actually rude.