The Future of Capitalism: How Today’s Economic Forces Shape Tomorrow’s World

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Author(s): Lester C. Thurow
Publisher: Penguin Books
Year: 1996

Language: English
Pages: 396

Contents (ix)......Page 8
1. New Game, New Rules, New Strategies (1)......Page 11
2. Mapping the Economic Surface of the Earth (20)......Page 30
3. Plate One: The End of Communism (43)......Page 53
4. Plate Two: An Era of Man-made Brainpower Industries (65)......Page 75
5. Plate Three: Demography—Growing, Moving, Getting Older (88)......Page 98
6. Plate Four: A Global Economy (115)......Page 125
7. Plate Five: A Multipolar World with No Dominant Power (139)......Page 149
8. The Forces Remaking the Economic Surface of the Earth (164)......Page 174
9. Inflation: An Extinct Volcano (185)......Page 195
10. Japan: The Major Fault Line Across World Trade and the Pacific Rim (194)......Page 204
11. Economic Instability (211)......Page 221
12. Social Volcanoes: Religious Fundamentalism and Ethnic Separatism (232)......Page 242
13. Democracy Versus the Market (242)......Page 252
14. A Period of Punctuated Equilibrium (279)......Page 289
15. Operating in a Period of Punctuated Equilibrium (310)......Page 320
Notes (329)......Page 338
Index (371)......Page 380