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The road to global prosperity / Michael Mandelbaum.

by Mandelbaum, Michael.

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New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014.

International trade.

International economic relations.

Economic development.

Financial crises.

9781476750019 (hardcover) :

1476750017 (hardcover)

xxi, 245 pages ; 25 cm

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

The roof. The three pillars of stability -- Major war -- The world's policeman -- The factory manager -- The future of international cooperation -- The gates. Creative destruction -- The politics of trade -- The Asian giants -- Human traffic -- The smell of money -- The river. Money and its discontents -- A drinking binge, a heart attack, and the flu -- An ounce of prevention -- Euro troubles -- The decline of the West -- The BRICs. The building blocks of the future -- Brazil : the perils of populism -- Russia : the resource curse -- India : the dysfunctions of democracy -- China : the limitations of autocracy -- Fault lines.

Describes the forces driving the next stage of globalization, which the author predicts will be a period of expanding wealth, opportunity, and international cooperation.

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