Losing control: the emerging threats to western prosperity

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Argues that the future will bring major redistribution of wealth and power around the world, which will result in social and political consequences in the United States and Europe, when the population that is accustomed to living in prosperity must stop living beyond their means.

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Full title :Losing control : the emerging threats to western prosperity / Stephen D. King.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.
Edition:[1st pbk ed.]

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Yale University Press
Place of Publication:New Haven
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

The Physical Object

Description:xxi, 279 pages : : illustrations ; : 20 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0300170874, 9780300170870
oclc:ocn694547901
LC Classification:HC59.3
Dewey Decimal:330.9

Wimbledon, the Olympics and scarcity -- The secrets of western success -- The pleasures and perils of trade -- International roulette : anarchy in capital markets -- Price stability brings economic instability -- Haves and have-nots -- Who controls what? The rise of state capitalism -- Running out of workers -- Indulging the US no more -- Coping with the West's diminished status.

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Competition, International Concurrence internationale developing countries Developing countries -- Economic policy Economic forecasting Economic forecasting -- Developing coun… Economic forecasting -- Western countri… Economic history Economic policy Economics Prévision économique -- Occident Western countries Western countries -- Economic condition… Western countries -- Economic policy