Table of Contents
Introduction The Bat Effect 1
Lesson 1 Buckle Up 13
Lesson 2 What Matters Is Not the Quantity of Government but the Quality 29
Lesson 3 Markets Are Not Enough 56
Lesson 4 People Should Listen to the Experts-and Experts Should Listen to the People 75
Lesson 5 Life Is Digital 97
Lesson 6 Aristotle Was Right-We Are Social Animals 122
Lesson 7 Inequality Will Get Worse 147
Lesson 8 Globalization Is Not Dead 167
Lesson 9 The World Is Becoming Bipolar 187
Lesson 10 Sometimes the Greatest Realists Are the Idealists 210
Conclusion Nothing Is Written 234
Afterword The Inner Life 243
Acknowledgments 259
Notes 263
Credits 325