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A violent world : modern threats to economic stability
- Title
- A violent world : modern threats to economic stability / Jean-Hervé Lorenzi, Mickaël Berrebi ; translated by Josephine Bacon ; foreword by Anthony Giddens.
- Author
- Lorenzi, Jean-Hervé
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
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- Additional Authors
- Berrebi, Mickaël
- Description
- xiv, 181 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "During the 1990s Francis Fukuyama announced the end of history. The 2000s showed how it is an illusion to imagine a peaceful world without conflict. In this book the authors explore how six major constraints are set to fix the trajectory of the global economy. Three of them are new: the aging population, the failure of technical progress, and the scarcity of savings. The other three have been at work for some time: the explosion of inequality, the mass transfer of activities from one end of the world to the other, and the limitless financialization of economy. They suggest that like seismic activity which depends on pressure between tectonic plates, the political and social tensions will be exacerbated in the coming years by these major forces. They propose that authorities will be incapable of preventing neither the date nor the intensity of the coming earthquakes, and ask the question: Are we able to cope with these future shocks and the violence they are sure to cause? "--
- Uniform Title
- Monde de violences. English
- Alternative Title
- Monde de violences.
- Subjects
- Economic history
- Demographie
- International finance
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General
- Economic history > 1990-
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic Conditions
- Welthandel
- International economic relations
- Wirtschaftswachstum
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Theory
- Economic history > Forecasting
- Kreditmarkt
- Economic forecasting
- Alterung
- Ungleichheit
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic History
- Economic history > 21st century > Forecasting
- Technischer Fortschritt
- Since 1990
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- 1. The major breakdown in technical progress -- 2. The curse of ageing -- 3. The irresistible explosion of inequalities -- 4. The impact of deindustrialization -- 5. The illusion of definancialization -- 6. Savings, the ultimate rare resource -- 7. Avoiding the major crisis of the twenty-first century.
- ISBN
- 9781137589927
- 1137589922
- LCCN
- 2015035441
- 99970330080
- OCLC
- ocn934937622
- 934937622
- SCSB-9400664
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries