The elephant and the dragon : the rise of India and China and what it means for all of us / Robyn Meredith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meredith, Robyn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

India--Economic conditions--21st century.

India.

Economic conditions.

India--Foreign economic relations.

International economic relations.

China--Economic conditions--2000-.

China.

China--Foreign economic relations.

United States--Economic conditions--21st century.

United States.

United States--Foreign economic relations.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

252 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2007]

Summary:

Today, India is as near as the voice answering an 800 number for one dollar an hour, and China is as close as the nearest Wal-Mart. Not since the United States rose to prominence a century ago have we seen such tectonic shifts in global power; but India and China are vastly different nations, with opposing economic and political strategies--strategies we must understand in order to survive in the new global economy. This book is the first to compare and contrast how these two Asian nations, each with more than a billion people, are spurring a new "gold rush," and what this will mean for the rest of the world.--From publisher description.

Contents:

Introduction: tectonic economics

Where Mao meets the middle class

From the spinning wheel to the fiber-optic wire

Made by America in China

The Internet's spice route

The disassembly line

India's cultural revolution

Revolution by dinner party

Geopolitics mixed with oil and water

A catalyst for competitiveness.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-236) and index.

ISBN:

9780393062366

0393062368

OCLC:

85814096