From the author of the widely-acclaimed Dead Aid, the New York Times bestseller traces the decline of the West’s economic supremacy and offers radical solutions.

“Moyo is a former employee of Goldman Sachs, and her diagnosis of the recent disasters in financial markets is succinct and sophisticated . . . Her core concerns are sufficiently close to painful truths to warrant our attention.” —The Observer

“Moyo is a serious economist with a serious message, one she doesn’t dumb down to promote her book. Nor does she take any pleasure in the West’s decline.” —Toronto Star

Acclaimed author Dambisa Moyo gives a fresh insider's perspective on the erosion of Western power over the past 50 years. She examines how the West's flawed financial decisions and blinkered political and military choices have resulted in an economic and geopolitical seesaw that is now poised to favour the emerging world.

Formerly a consultant for the World Bank and an investment banker specializing in emerging markets at Goldman Sachs, Moyo is uniquely positioned to examine the West's errors and the techniques the emerging countries used to rise on the global economic stage. How the West Was Lost reveals the myopia of the West but also the radical solutions that it needs to adopt in order to reassert itself as a global economic power.

A media star, Moyo was featured in Oprah Winfrey's power list of 20 remarkable visionaries, and Time magazine named her as one of the world's 100 most influential people.