This is a very good book, touching on changes in business, political,social and economic forces. It argues that most important is reaction of governments. Some nations front-load policy: being preemptive (more socialistic). And some back-load more punishments and contrition (more authoritarian). Beyond today's standard vitriol, however, good schools, clean water, and safe streets do not create lazy socialists. Likewise proud individualism and schadenfreude does not make for proto Nazis, but as Graham Greene liked to say, 'good people' in the worst sense of the term. Attention here is paid to policy differences in different nations.