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In The World in 2020, acclaimed commentator and best-selling author Hamish McRae paints a vivid competitive landscape in which culture and values will be the new sources of advantage for the industrialized nations. In the year 2020, all having embraced market capitalism, the North American, European and East Asian countries will be engaged in fierce economic competition. With each nation increasingly able to imitate the others, innovations will cross borders within more days and weeks, removing technological prowess as a source of sustained advantage. McRae sees the "old motors for growth" - land, capital and natural resources - being replaced by more qualitative assets - quality, organization, motivation and self-discipline of the people. Everywhere, governments will take a less active role in the social and economic life of the nation. In such a world, the best predictor of success will be how a nation strikes a proper balance between creativity and intellect on the one hand, and social responsibility on the other. Thus the leading world economic powers of the next generation are just as likely to include China and Australia as the United States and Japan.

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Identifying the forces for economic change--among them demography, the environment, the role of government, technology and natural resources--McRae argues that the best predictor of success will be how a nation strikes a proper balance between creativity and intellect on the one hand, and social responsibility on the other. Thus the leading world economic powers of the next generation are just as likely to include China and Australia as the US and Japan.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-291) and index.
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ISBN:
9780875846040
Author:
McRae, Hamish
Publisher:
Harvard Business School Press
Author:
McRae, Hamish
Location:
Boston, Mass. :
Subject:
Economics
Subject:
Microeconomics
Subject:
Business forecasting
Subject:
Economic History
Subject:
Twenty-first century
Subject:
Economic history -- 1990-
Subject:
Economics - Microeconomics
Subject:
Economics - General
Subject:
Twenty-first century -- Forecasts.
Copyright:
1995
Series Volume:
186026
Publication Date:
January 1995
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
302
Dimensions:
9.50x6.41x1.26 in. 1.44 lbs.
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