World on Fire (book)

World on Fire

Cover of the first edition
Author	Amy Chua
Country	United States
Language	English
Subjects	Economic inequality ethnic conflict globalization
Publisher	Doubleday (hardcover) Anchor Books (paperback)
Publication date	2003 (hardcover)
Media type	Print (hardcover and paperback)
ISBN	978-0-385-72186-8 (paperback)
Dewey Decimal	303.6 21
LC Class	HF1359 .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]