World on Fire (book)

World on Fire
Cover of the first edition
AuthorAmy Chua
LanguageEnglish
Subjects
  • Economic inequality
  • ethnic conflict
  • globalization
PublisherDoubleday (hardcover)
Anchor Books (paperback)
Publication date
2003 (hardcover)
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover and paperback)
ISBN978-0-385-72186-8 (paperback)
303.6 21
LC ClassHF1359 .C524 2004

World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability is a 2003 book by American legal scholar Amy Chua. It is an academic study of ethnic and sociological divisions in the economic and political systems of various societies. The book discusses the concept of "market-dominant minorities", which it defines as ethnic minority groups who, under given market conditions, tend to prosper, flourish, and dominate economically, often significantly, over other, often ethnic majority groups in the country.[1]


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