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Richard Baldwin shows how the combination of high tech with low wages propelled industrialization in developing nations, deindustrialization in developed nations, and a commodity supercycle that is petering out.
As The Great Convergence shows, the new globalization presents rich and developing nations alike with unprecedented policy challenges in their efforts to maintain reliable growth and social cohesion.--
Globalization has been driven by the transnational corporations search for cheap labour, but little attention has been paid to the consequent changes in the world of work.
Robert J. Berg and Jennifer S. Whitaker. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1986. Yusuf, Shahid. Economics through the Decades: A Critical Look at 30 Years of the World Development Report. Washington, DC: World Bank, 2009.
A veteran economist and investment strategist explains how aging populations in the developed world are threatening the American way of life, offering advice on how to positively and profitably respond to key changes in labor, production ...
Although this text has undergone a major revision, the Eighth Edition retains Mishkin/Eakins’ hallmark pedagogy that make it the best-selling textbook on financial markets and institutions.
After reading this text, studentsare well equipped to apply these financial models, terms, and equations todecisions that affect both their personal and professional lives.
"Stephen Roach's prescient collection of insights and analyses, from his many years in Asia as one of the most experienced decoders of China's political and economic trends, are cogent, valuable, and immensely helpful." —HENRY A. ...
According to maverick economist Jeff Rubin, there will be no energy bailout. The global economy has suffered oil crises in the past, but this time around the rules have changed.
Combining historical analysis with current affairs, economist Stephen D. King provides a provocative and engaging account of why globalization is being rejected, what a world ruled by rival states with conflicting aims might look like, and ...