The rise and fall of an economic empire: with lessons for aspiring economies

We have seen many empires come and go. From the Roman Empire to the British Empire, we are now witnessing the decline of the US as a superpower. How do economic innovations foster global economic dominance, and how does the natural evolution of an economic empire eventually bring about its demise and replacement by other economic superpowers? INDICE: Introduction - PART I: FROM 10,000 B.C. TO 1776 b THE DISCOVERY OFECONOMIES OF SCALE - An Economic Prehistory to Economic Emperors - Barter, Economic Emperors, and the Decentralized Marketplace - Specialization and Surpluses - The First Industrial Revolution - Colonialism Puts Sugar in Our Tea - PART II: A SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION - A Declaration of Economic Independence- An Economic Bill of Rights - Dominance Through Economics - Private Solutions to Public Problems - PART III: THE NEW MERCANTILISTS - The Consumer as King - A New Colonialism - Dependency Economics - PART IV: ASPIRING NATIONS - Transfer of Technology - Economic Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery - Heckscher, Ohlin, and Two Billion - Hungry and Willing to Work for Change - PART V: GROWING PAINS - Complex Economic Systems - Herding Cats and Chaos Theory - Too Big to Fail - Private Property Gives Way to the Public Good - The Winner'sCurse - PART VI: A NEW ECONOMIC ORDER - The Politics of a Consumption Economy- Gradual economic Marginalization - A New Economic Order - Convergence - PART VII: FROM WHERE HAVE WE COME, AND WHERE WILL WE GO? - The Dance of Demographics - Steady State and Sustainability - Economic Darwinism and Dinosaurs - Prescriptions for Relevance - Conclusions

• ISBN: 978-0-230-27370-2
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 304
• Fecha Publicación: 17/09/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés