  
Asian societies are transforming faster and more dramatically than any societies in human history. Young people in traditional communities in countries like China and India suddenly encounter technologies and job opportunities that were unimaginable to their parents. Asia has become a more mobile and a more competitive place.
Rush: Why You Need and Love the Rat Race, named by Publishers Weekly as a "top ten" book for 2011, blends economics and evolutionary psychology to assess the pace of modern life and to ask key questions such as: Are we better off? Should we return to "simpler times?" Does commercial life make us more greedy, more violent or more content?"
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