LEADER 05510nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910452311103321 005 20210706013754.0 010 $a981-4494-87-9 035 $a(CKB)2550000001096054 035 $a(EBL)1275567 035 $a(OCoLC)853362787 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000916850 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12344675 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000916850 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10876942 035 $a(PQKB)11536005 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1275567 035 $a(WSP)00008789 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1275567 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10731527 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL502629 035 $a(OCoLC)860387889 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001096054 100 $a20130208d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe global economy in transition$b[electronic resource] $edebt and resource scarcities /$fby Jørgen Ørstrøm Møller 210 $a[Hackensack], NJ $cWorld Scientific$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (346 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a981-4494-86-0 311 $a1-299-71378-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aForeword; About the Book; About the Author; Preface and Acknowledgements; Contents; Overview of The Global Economy in Transition: Debt and Resource Scarcities; Part I The Global System; Introduction to Part I; China's Effort to Redefine Corporate Governance; CONCLUSION; Welcome to the Age of Angst; THE GOOD OLD DAYS; A STAGNATING WORLD; FAILURE TO DELIVER; Wikileaks and Consequences for Modern Diplomacy; WIKILEAKS AND RAISON D'E?TAT; SECRET VERSUS NON-SECRET DIPLOMACY; WHAT DID WIKILEAKS TELL US?; THE FUTURE OF DIPLOMACY; CONCLUSION; References; The Deadly Cocktail; NATIONALISM; POPULISM 327 $aINEQUALITIESTHE CLASH; CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS; Private Gain, Public Loss; Making Profit at the Cost of Society's Interest; Conventional Economic Theory - A Critique Highlighting Flaws in American Style Capitalism; INTRODUCTION; WHY DO WE QUESTION THE AMERICAN STYLE CAPITALISM?; WORLD OF PLENTY; SCARCITIES AND BURDEN SHARING; HOMO OECONOMICUS; INTERDISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL COSTS; Social Transaction Costs; Social Opportunity Costs; Net Social Costs of Economic Transactions; PRODUCTION THEORY; CONSUMPTION THEORY; COMPETITION?; GLOBAL ECONOMICS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES 327 $aPart II Scarcities - New Economic ThinkingIntroduction to Part II; Key Events Driving the Future of Chinese Economy; "BOTH" INSTEAD OF "EITHER-OR"; LESS INDIVIDUALISM, MORE COLLECTIVISM; Saving Resources with a Tax on their Total Use; Want a Way Out of the Recession? Create Jobs by Saving Resources; ENORMOUS SOCIETAL COST; COHERENT POLICY FRAMEWORK; The Era of Scarcities; HOW DO WE COPE WITH THIS CHALLENGE?; Food Scarcity; Energy Looks the Same; A Clean Environment is the Fifth Scarcity; Can It Be Done?; Asia Redraws the Map of Progress; ASIAN DEMOGRAPHY AND THE NEW ECONOMIC MODEL 327 $aTRENDS IN TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATIONMATCHING EDUCATION TO NATIONAL NEEDS; FIVE SCARCITIES: FOOD, COMMODITIES, ENERGY, WATER, AND A CLEAN ENVIRONMENT; FORCES THREATENING ASIA'S FUTURE; A NEW PARADIGM FOR GROWTH; Tax on Commodity Profits Could Postpone Scarcity; Part III Debt; Introduction to Part III; The Way Out of the Debt Trap; BURDEN OF ADJUSTMENT; BLESSING IN DISGUISE; Global Debt Picture Not Very Pretty; UNDIGESTED LESSON; DYSFUNCTIONAL U.S.; Inflation or Deflation? Both!; U.S. More Worrying than Europe; Why Debt Does Not Go Away; CONSUMER SENTIMENT; BITING THE BULLET 327 $aGlobal Economy Faces Wealth RedistributionUNCHARTED WATERS; Has the Fed Got it Wrong Again?; The Markets Prey on Debt-Laden Nations; Nationalism or Capitalism? Sovereign Wealth Funds of Non-OECD Countries; INTRODUCTION; THE FIGURES; THE EUROPEAN REACTION; EU/OECD SWFS; WHAT MAKES AN SWF INVESTMENT DIFFERENT FROM OTHER INWARD FDI?; Defensive Actions; SWF - Risk-Taking Profile; SWFs - Points of Concern and Answers; SWFs - Perceived Impacts; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; Agonising Wait for U.S. Economy to Rebalance; Get Out While you Can; U.S. Recession: Spend Now, Save Later 327 $aPart IV The Euro-zone 330 $aThis book is a collection of essays written by Ambassador, Professor Jørgen Ørstrøm Møller. from the middle of 2009 to end of 2012, commenting on global economic and political events, which reflect Moeller's judgment and evaluation on these issues.Readers get an overview to the collection of essays and the worldview they represent in an introductory chapter weaving together strands of economics, politics, and societal issues. Møller goes a step further by sketching up a picture of how a future economic model and political system may look - forged by debt, scarcities, economic integration, 606 $aEconomics 606 $aEconomic development 606 $aInternational trade 606 $aDebt 606 $aScarcity 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEconomics. 615 0$aEconomic development. 615 0$aInternational trade. 615 0$aDebt. 615 0$aScarcity. 676 $a330.9 700 $aMøller$b J Ørstrøm$0874078 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452311103321 996 $aThe global economy in transition$91951550 997 $aUNINA