If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities
Best-selling author Benjamin R. Barber pens a skilled and impassioned argument for why mayors and their brand of leadership offer the best solutions to entrenched global problemsFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE In the face of the most perilous challenges of our time—climate change, terrorism, poverty, and trafficking of drugs, guns, and people—the nations of the world seem paralyzed. The problems are too global, complex, and divisive for national governments to deal with successfully. If the nation‑state, once democracy’s best hope, has grown dysfunctional and obsolete, who can tackle these