The Rise Of The Global Economy

This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.

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Readable, wide-ranging history of multinational enterprise, exploring its role in international events and influence on globalization and the modern world.

Substantial progress in the fight against extreme poverty was made in the last two decades. But the slowdown in global economic growth and significant increases in income inequality in many developed and developing countries raise serious concerns about the continuation of this trend into the 21st century. The time has come to seriously think about how improvements in official global governance, coupled with and reinforced by rising activism of 'global citizens' can lead to welfare-enhancing and more equitable results for global citizens through better national and international policies. This book examines the factors that are most likely to facilitate the process of beneficial economic growth in low-, middle-, and high-income countries. It examines past, present, and future economic growth; demographic changes; the hyperglobalization of trade; the effect of finance on growth; climate change and resource depletion; and the sense of global citizenship and the need for global governance in order to draw longer-term implications, identify policy options for improving the lives of average citizens around the world, and make the case for the need to confront new challenges with truly global policy responses. The book documents how demographic changes, convergence, and competition are likely to bring about massive shifts in the sectoral and geographical composition of global output and employment, as the center of gravity of the global economy moves toward Asia and emerging economies elsewhere. It shows that the legacies of the 2008-09 crisis-high unemployment levels, massive excess capacities, and high debt levels-are likely to reduce the standard of living of millions of people in many countries over a long period of adjustment and that fluctuations in international trade, financial markets, and commodity prices, as well as the tendency of institutions at both the national and international level to favor the interests of the better-off and more powerful pose substantial risks for citizens of all countries. The chapters and their policy implications are intended to stimulate public interest and facilitate the exchange of ideas and policy dialogue.

Documents and analyzes the role and functions of educational policy in the context of today's global economic system, and the consequences of educational policies designed to align educational systems with the needs of international corporations.

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This book provides a broad and in-depth introduction to the geopolitical, economic and trade changes wrought with the increasing influence of the countries of the Global South in international affairs. Since the introduction of the United Nations General Assembly's New International Economic Order, the countries of the Global South, particularly China, India, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Qatar, made an indelible impact upon the world's economic architecture.

This 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, and the rise of Asia. Part I deals with global systems and possible long trends shaping the future over the coming decades, as the current political system and economic model, having run their course, come to an end. Part II discusses how the era of scarcities will change economic behaviour in terms of economic models. Part III looks into the global debt problem, which confines the world to low growth over one or two decades as the world tries to get rid of the debt burden. Part IV forms an analysis of what has happened in the Euro-zone and how the global debt crisis has compelled the Europeans to take the next steps in integration and address the shortcomings and flaws in the original treaty from 1992. Part V turns to Asia and its future in the global economy. It concentrates on Asian integration and how the Asian countries will fare in the future under much changed circumstances compared to how things looked when the Asian adventure started some 30–40 years ago. At the end, readers will find a short post-scriptum with some of Moeller's afterthoughts on the important issues discussed throughout the book. Contents:The Global System:Introduction to Part IChina's Effort to Redefine Corporate GovernanceWelcome to the Age of AngstWikileaks and Consequences for Modern DiplomacyThe Deadly CocktailPrivate Gain, Public LossMaking Profit at the Cost of Society's InterestConventional Economic Theory — A Critique Highlighting Flaws in American Style CapitalismScarcities — New Economic Thinking:Introduction to Part IIKey Events Driving the Future of Chinese EconomySaving Resources with a Tax on Their Total UseWant a Way Out of the Recession? Create Jobs by Saving ResourcesThe Era of ScarcitiesAsia Redraws the Map of ProgressTax on Commodity Profits Could Postpone ScarcityDebt:Introduction to Part IIIThe Way Out of the Debt TrapGlobal Debt Picture Not Very PrettyInflation or Deflation? Both!US More Worrying Than EuropeWhy Debt Does Not Go AwayGlobal Economy Faces Wealth RedistributionHas the Fed Got It Wrong Again?The Markets Prey on Debt-Laden NationsNationalism or Capitalism? Sovereign Wealth Funds of Non-OECD CountriesAgonising Wait for US Economy to RebalanceGet Out While You CanUS Recession: Spend Now, Save LaterThe Euro-Zone:Introduction to Part IVLessons Asia Can Learn From EuropeEurope, Not Euro, May Break ApartNow Comes the Hard Part for the Euro-ZoneWhy the Euro Will SurviveIn Europe, North Battles SouthEurope After the Debt CrisisPainful Euro Crisis and Lessons for the WorldThe Euro-Zone Fights for SurvivalAsia in the Global Economy:Introduction to Part VEconomic Integration — The Future for AsiaFrom Asian Financial Crisis to the Western Debt CrisisThe Asian Supply Chain Becomes More CompactWhat Makes S'pore DifferentLessons for Asia From the Global Financial CrisisHow Will Southeast Asia Position Itself in Asia's Future in an Age of Scarcities?How Can ASEAN Stay Relevant?Asia Faces US Default on Its Sovereign DebtUS and China May Move to Cap Military SpendingChina to the Rescue: Growing Out of the Financial CrisisHow the US and Asia Can Help Each Other Readership: Researchers, professionals, or graduate students interested in globalization, corporate governance, and policy-makers or business leaders involved with economics and politics, who are interested in current global economic trends and issues. Keywords:Globalization;China;Economics;Global Economy;Debt Crisis;Resource Scarcity;Economic Model;Political SystemKey Features:Addresses current problems, enhances knowledge and opens the door to the future shape of economics and politics steered by debt and resource scarcitiesProvides an overview to the collection of essays and worldview they representWeaves together economics, politics and societal and issuesReviews: "A European living in Asia who provides an international perspective on the most important global issues. Jørgen Møller's writings are both sharp and balanced — a stimulating blend of the Occident and the Orient." Indermit Gill Chief Economist Europe and Central Asia, The World Bank "“Jørgen Møller is a global public intellectual par excellence. As a former top Danish diplomat with decades of experience in Europe and Asia, he brings deep-seated practical knowledge to bear on the most vital issues of political economy — in particular, debt and national strategies for growth. The latest collection of his work, The Global Economy in Transition, merits a place on the shelf of every policymaker, researcher and activist concerned about the future and whether globalization promises stability and equity or greater instability and inequality." Ambassador Derek Shearer Chevalier Professor of Diplomacy and Director of the McKinnon Center on Global Affairs Occidental College