A refreshing, insightful look into the political and economic dynamics driving globalization today Globalization: it's earlier than you think. That's the provocative message of Against the Dead Hand, which traces the rise and fall of the century-long dream of central planning and top-down control and its impact on globalization-revealing the extent to which the "dead hand" of the old collectivist dream still shapes the contours of today's world economy. Mixing historical narrative, thought-provoking arguments, and on-the-scene reporting and interviews, Brink Lindsey shows how the economy has grown up amidst the wreckage of the old regime-detailing how that wreckage constrains the present and obscures the future. He conveys a clearer picture of globalization's current state than the current conventional wisdom, providing a framework for anticipating the future direction of the world econo
Expanding upon a landmark article in "Foreign Affairs", this work explains why the story of America is a story of entrepreneurship, and what readers must understand about the rules of innovation driving the economy. It shows how entrepreneurship is embedded in the national DNA, and what every American must know about the rules. Expanding upon a landmark article in "Foreign Affairs", Carl Schramm explains why the story of America is a story of entrepreneurship, and what readers must understand about the new rules of innovation driving the economy. In the July/August 2004 issue of "Foreign Affairs", Kauffman Foundation president Carl Schramm published an essay which provoked a great deal of interest and debate. The premise was radical. It said that Americans literally do not understand the secret of their own economic success in recent times. Nobody on earth can match Americans' entreprene
From one of our shrewdest economic trend-spotters, a wake-up call that prosperity is about to shift from the West to the East, and what we can do before it’s too late Titel: Three billion new capitalists : the great shift of wealth and power to the East Udgave: 1. udgave Genre: historie_samfund Sammendrag: Clyde Prestowitz beskriver, hvordan globaliseringen og fremvæksten af markedsøkonomier i Asien og tidligere planøkonomier har tilført verdensøkonomien omkring tre milliarder nye kapitalister. Han analyserer, hvordan denne udvikling ændrer magtbalancen mellem USA/Europa og lande som Kina og Indien. Bogen gennemgår de økonomiske, industrielle og politiske drivkræfter bag væksten i Østen, og hvordan outsourcing, handelspolitik og teknologisk udvikling udfordrer USA’s traditionelle økonomiske dominans. Prestowitz argumenterer for, at USA og Vesten må gentænke deres økonomiske strategi og f
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NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • From two winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, “who have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity” “A wildly ambitious work that hopscotches through history and around the world to answer the very big question of why some countries get rich and others don’t.”—The New York Times FINALIST: Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Financial Times, The Economist, BusinessWeek, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, The Plain Dealer Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, or geography that determines prosperity or poverty? As Why Nations Fail shows, none of these factors is either definitive or destiny. D
Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism and the End of Economic Democracy A cogent, fiercely entertaining, often scathing assault on the institutions and pretensions of the new capitalist order and the tyranny of the almighty market.At no other moment in history have the values of business and the corporation been more nakedly and arrogantly in the ascendant. In 'One Market Under God', social critic Thomas Frank examines the morphing of the language of democracy into the cant and jargon of the marketplace. Combining popular intellectual history with a survey of recent business culture, Frank traces an idea he calls 'market populism' - the notion that markets are, in some transcendent way, identifiable with democracy and the will of rh people.The idea that any criticism of things as they are is elitist can be seen in management literature, where downsizing and ceaseless, chaotic change are ce
Summary: Examines how the wealthy classes have contributed to growing inequality in society and explains how the quest to increase wealth has hindered the country's economic growth as well as its efforts to solve its most pressing economic problems Titel: The Price of Inequality Udgave: 1. udgave Genre: erhverv_oekonomi_ledelse Sammendrag: Joseph E. Stiglitz viser, hvordan stigende økonomisk ulighed underminerer vækst, svækker demokratiet og forvrider den offentlige debat. Med udgangspunkt i finanskrisen og udviklingen i USA forklarer han, hvordan politiske beslutninger og økonomiske strukturer har begunstiget de rigeste på bekostning af middelklassen. Han præsenterer samtidig konkrete bud på reformer, der kan mindske uligheden og styrke både økonomi og samfund. Type: Hardcover
Summary: For over thirty years, this classic text has offered students a comprehensive overview of the economic aspects of growth and development which is clearly written without sacrificing rigour. The focus is on macroeconomic issues with unique chapters on the history of economic thought, project appraisal and input-output analysis and extensive material on growth theory and the growth process in developing countries. Mini case examples and numerous statistics support the theory, while discussion questions and weblinks encourage student reflection Titel: Growth & development : with special reference to developing economics Udgave: Eighth Edition Genre: Faglitteratur Sammendrag: This edition provides a thorough updated survey of development economics, discussing globalization, poverty measurement, Millennium Development Goals, trade liberalization, and more. Type: Paperback
