Title The future of capitalism : how today's economic forces will shape tomorrow's world / Lester C. Thurow

Edition First edition Published New York : W. Morrow, [1996] ©1996

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Description x, 385 pages ; 24 cm Contents Ch. 1. New Game, New Rules, New Strategies -- Ch. 2. Mapping the Economic Surface of the Earth -- Ch. 3. Plate One: The End of Communism -- Ch. 4. Plate Two: An Era of Man-made Brainpower Industries -- Ch. 5. Plate Three: Demography - Growing, Moving, Getting Older -- Ch. 6. Plate Four: A Global Economy -- Ch. 7. Plate Five: A Multipolar World with No Dominant Power -- Ch. 8. The Forces Remaking the Economic Surface of the Earth -- Ch. 9. Inflation: An Extinct Volcano -- Ch. 10. Japan: The Major Fault Line Across World Trade and the Pacific Rim -- Ch. 11. Economic Instability -- Ch. 12. Social Volcanoes: Religious Fundamentalism and Ethnic Separatism -- Ch. 13. Democracy Versus the Market -- Ch. 14. A Period of Punctuated Equilibrium -- Ch. 15. Operating in a Period of Punctuated Equilibrium Notes CIP confirmed Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [329]-369) and index Subject Capitalism -- Forecasting. Economic forecasting. International economic relations -- Forecasting. Skilled labor -- Forecasting. Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- Forecasting. Twenty-first century -- Forecasts. SUBJECT United States -- Economic conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140020 -- 1981- United States -- Economic conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140020 -- 1993- LC no. 95042443 ISBN 0688129692 (hardcover : acid-free paper) 1864484292 (paperback)

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