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Scale
A Road to Re-enchantment
- Author: Mark Medish
- Category: Non-fiction Humanities
- Publisher: MacAdam / Cage (US) / Penguin Canada
- Pub date: september 2010
- Length: 90,000 words
About Scale
SCALE is both an analysis of the enormous challenges that face us as we confront the 21st century – perhaps best described as the rapidly shifting dimensions of modern life, whether they be technological, biological, economic or political – and a meditation on the feeling that we all share, in response to those changes, that while the world may seem smaller our over-cluttered lives can feel increasingly gargantuan and out of control.
Drawing on a number of academic disciplines but utilizing his experience as an international political economist Mark Medish looks at the many meanings and uses of Scale, both abstract and tangible, and asks if something as simple as ‘a sense of proportion’ is in fact the corner-stone for a move towards an essential re-scaling in all aspects of our contemporary living.
SCALE promises to be a witty, wise and enormously thought-provoking book, which will robustly argue for the vital importance of re-asserting humanist values in a world which can too often seem inhuman and un-involved despite its apparently vibrant connectivity.
About the Author
Mark Medish is currently Vice Chairman of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Between 1993 and 2000 he worked at the White House as a special advisor on foreign affairs to President Bill Clinton, and also for the National Security Council and in the Treasury Department (advising on international foreign policy) and for the State Department (advising on international foreign aid). Mark subsequently worked in New York at the United Nations, advising on global development. He has spent the past six years traveling the world, providing both individuals and governments with advice on creating democratic structures in emerging economies. He contributes to a number of newspapers, magazines and blogs internationally including the Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Financial Times and Open Democracy.