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The road to global prosperity / Michael Mandelbaum.
Lippincott Library HB501 .M31364 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mandelbaum, Michael, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capitalism.
- International trade.
- International economic relations.
- Economic development.
- Financial crises.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 245 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2014.
- Summary:
- Describes the forces driving the next stage of globalization, which the author predicts will be a period of expanding wealth, opportunity, and international cooperation.
- Contents:
- The roof. The three pillars of stability
- Major war
- The world's policeman
- The factory manager
- The future of international cooperation
- The gates. Creative destruction
- The politics of trade
- The Asian giants
- Human traffic
- The smell of money
- The river. Money and its discontents
- A drinking binge, a heart attack, and the flu
- An ounce of prevention
- Euro troubles
- The decline of the West
- The BRICs. The building blocks of the future
- Brazil : the perils of populism
- Russia : the resource curse
- India : the dysfunctions of democracy
- China : the limitations of autocracy
- Fault lines.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-223) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781476750019
- 1476750017
- 1476750025
- 9781476750026
- OCLC:
- 861966289
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