The future of capitalism
Subtitle: how today's economic forces shape tomorrow's world
By: Lester C. Thurow
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 1997
Place of publication: St Leonards, NSW
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
Subjects: Economic forecasting; Capitalism; Forecasting; Technological innovations; Economic aspects; Skilled labor; International economic relations; Economic conditions; Twenty-first century; Forecasts
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-369) and index.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1.; title: New Game, New Rules, New Strategies -- -- Ch. 2.; title: Mapping the Economic Surface of the Earth -- -- Ch. 3.; title: Plate One: The End of Communism -- -- Ch. 4.; title: Plate Two: An Era of Man-made Brainpower Industries -- -- Ch. 5.; title: Plate Three: Demography - Growing, Moving, Getting Older -- -- Ch. 6.; title: Plate Four: A Global Economy -- -- Ch. 7.; title: Plate Five: A Multipolar World with No Dominant Power -- -- Ch. 8.; title: The Forces Remaking the Economic Surface of the Earth -- -- Ch. 9.; title: Inflation: An Extinct Volcano -- -- Ch. 10.; title: Japan: The Major Fault Line Across World Trade and the Pacific Rim -- -- Ch. 11.; title: Economic Instability -- -- Ch. 12.; title: Social Volcanoes: Religious Fundamentalism and Ethnic Separatism -- -- Ch. 13.; title: Democracy Versus the Market -- -- Ch. 14.; title: A Period of Punctuated Equilibrium -- -- Ch. 15.; title: Operating in a Period of Punctuated Equilibrium.