Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World
Ian Goldin
Ian Goldin tackles the challenges and opportunities posed by the pandemic, ranging from globalisation to the future of jobs, income inequality and geopolitics, the climate crisis and the modern city. It is a fresh, bold call for an optimistic future and one we all have the power to create.
Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World is available from:
Hodder Hachette
Rescue will also be available in the following translations:
- Japanese
Reviews and endorsements:
A fresh and penetrating insight from one of the great authorities on globalisation into what’s gone wrong with our world and what needs to be put right.
Gordon Brown, former Prime Minister of BritainEssential reading for anyone interested in making the world a better place. Rescue provides an urgently needed roadmap for us all.
Arianna Huffington, Founder & CEO, Thrive GlobalRescue gives us hope that we can come together to build forward better and shape societies and economies that are fairer, greener and more inclusive. Ian Goldin’s prescriptions for investing in people and the planet, and with strong international cooperation, show us how we can create a world that works for all.
Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the IMFIan Goldin gives us a bold, compelling account of the lessons of the pandemic: After four decades of neoliberal market thinking, big government is back. Only an activist state can deal with inequality, climate change, and future pandemics. This important book shows that we need not a ‘reset’ but a fundamental rethinking of capitalism if we are to build more just, resilient societies.
Michael J. Sandel, author of The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?Ian Goldin offers an insightful perpective on the injustices and crises besetting today’s world. his book deserves wide readership – indeed one would like to hope that his wisdom will influence the political leaders who confront the challenge of ‘building back better’ after Covid 19.
Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer RoyalIan Goldin’s “Rescue” is an optimistic and insightful analysis of the pros as well as the cons of the pandemic and seeks to assess its potential to reshape our lives for the better. To paraphrase his words and the essence of the title – can the pandemic go down in history as the event that rescued humanity? Goldin brings statistics alive in this optimistic analysis of the positive as well as the negative impact of the pandemic – it is a beacon of hope for the future.
Lord Norman FosterThis well-researched book shows us what is wrong with our current economic model and provides a convincing clarion call for change after the pandemic.
Baroness Minouche Shafik, Director LSEProfessor Ian Goldin is mapping the short and long term consequences of the COVID pandemic in his excellent book Rescue. We know that some negative effects will linger for a long time in our societies and economies, but there is also hope of a brighter future. Professor Goldin points out that something better can come out of this if we make a joint effort to reset out communities on a more sustainable path. This well written book gives hope of a better future.
Cécilia Malmstrom, former EU CommissionIn this broad-ranging book, Ian Goldin aptly views the West’s failure to address at all adequately the Covid-19 virus as emblematic of widespread national failures. To get out of this dystopia, he argues, nations will have to create nothing less than “a different operating system” and they must cooperate far more than in the past. This radical book is a must-read.
Professor Edmund Phelps, Nobel LaureateRescue is a wise and hopeful book. As the world begins to emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic, Ian Goldin has assembled an extraordinary range of data to assess its impact and identify opportunities for transformative change. Just the tonic weary readers need!
Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO of the New America
Press coverage and media reviews
- Ian Goldin Discusses His Optimistic Vision of a Post-Pandemic World, Times Network, South Africa (April 2022)
- Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (March 2022)
- Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World, Oxford Literary Festival (October 2021)
- Integrity in politics: Not too much to ask, The Sydney Morning Herald (October 2021)
- The optimistic vision of Ian Goldin: ‘Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World’, Afternoon Drive with John Maytham, CapeTalk Radio (September 2021)
- Can we build a better world after Covid?, Financial Mail (September 2021)
- Rescue remedies for ‘an equality of pain’: a review of ‘Apeirogon’, ‘The Island of Missing Trees’ and ‘Rescue’, Maverick Citizen (September 2021)
- Covid-19 has made fighting inequality more critical than ever, Financial Times (September 2021)
- Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World, Edinburgh Festival (August 2021)
- Oxford professor Ian Goldin lays down optimistic vision of the future post-Covid, The Money Show, CapeTalk Radio (August 2021)
- Covid has shown the way and there’s no looking back, Sunday Times Daily (July 2021)
- Bricks, mortar and mielie meal – not more words, Daily Maverick (July 2021)
- From Pandemic Crisis to a Better South Africa, Mail and Guardian (July 2021)
- What the pandemic changed: Conversation with Trevor Manuel, GIBS (July 2021)
- Impacts of COVID-19: global systems with Ian Goldin, Frontiers Policy Labs Podcast (July 2021)
- ‘Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World’, Departures Podcast with Robert Amsterdam (Apple) (July 2021)
- From Global Crisis to a Better World, TED Talk (June 2021)
- Fire, tsunami, pandemic: how to ensure societies learn lessons from disaster – podcast (from 27:45) The Conversation Weekly (June 2021)
- The World After Coronavirus, EAI Distinguished Public Lecture – National University of Singapore (June 2021)
- How the pandemic could save us, VoxEU (June 2021)
- The pandemic, floods, inequalities, political strife, oil, and the shaping of a national vision, Stabroek News (June 2021)
- ‘Rescue by Ian Goldin — Covid crisis as catalyst’, Financial Times (June 2021)
- ‘Business as usual’ will only bring us more pandemics, this Oxford economist says, Fortune (June 2021)
- Book calls for a rethink of capitalism amid the ravages of COVID-19, The Conversation (June 2021)
- Interview with Daisy McAndrew (from 02:38:08), Times Radio (May 2021)
- My vaccine moment: Seize the time for a fundamental rethinking of capitalism, Maverick Citizen (May 2021)
- COVID-19 has shown that following the same road will lead the world over a precipice, The Conversation (May 2021)
- Amol Rajan with Jude Browne, Ian Goldin an Elif Shafak: Rethink, Hay Festival (May 2021)
- Rescue: From Global Crisis to a better world, LSE Public Lectures and Events (Apple) (26 May 2021)
- Covid-19: From Global Crisis to a Better World, DLD Sync (May 2021)
- COVID-19: how rising inequalities unfolded and why we cannot afford to ignore it, The Conversation (20 May 2021) (Reprinted in Conversation US, Yahoo News, Gavi, IPPO)
- Book Launch: Ian Goldin: “Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World”, Oxford Martin School, 19 May 2021
- May 5×15 with Ian Goldin, Giles Fraser, Mona Eltahawy and more, 5×15, 17 May 2021
- Interview with Hugo Rifkind (2:22-2:31), Times Radio, 15 May 2021
- Weekend, with Julian Worricker (from 46:17), BBC World Service, 2 May 2021
- Our ‘soldiers’ are not only in the military – key workers face risks for us too, The Guardian, 8 March 2021
- Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World, (01.05 to 01.21) TedX, 7 Feb 2021
- Rethink Fairness: Generations, BBC Radio 4, 8 January 2021
Book reviews
- ‘A public health manifesto’, The Lancet, 19 February 2022