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Fortune Favors the Bold: What We Must Do to Build a New and Lasting Global Prosperity

by Lester Carl Thurow
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Fortune Favors the Bold: What We Must Do to Build a New and Lasting Global Prosperity
Fortune Favors the Bold: What We Must Do to Build a New and Lasting Global Prosperity

Global economics vision, prosperous equitable future.

If you've been feeling the ripples of globalization and wonder what it all means for our collective future, Lester Thurow's "Fortune Favors the Bold" comes as a critical resource. Thurow invites you to consider the potential of a balanced global economy where prosperity isn't just our ambition but a shared international goal. It's especially intriguing for anyone concerned about the US's role in the world markets or seeking enlightened perspectives on steering the global economy towards stability and fairness.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Fortune Favors the Bold: What We Must Do to Build a New and Lasting Global Prosperity

by Lester Carl Thurow
$11.90 Now $9.90 Save 17%
ISBN: 9780060523657
Authors: Lester Carl Thurow
Publisher: Harper Business
Date of Publication: 2003-10-07
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Economics, Politics, Sociology, Business
Related Topics: Society, Politics, Finance, Leadership, Economics, Sociology, Political Science, Management
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Bestselling author and renowned economist Lester Thurow argues forcefully that globalization is not a done deal and we must seize the moment now if we are to create a new global economy in which all can prosper. In this new book, Thurow examines the newly–forming global economy, with a special focus on the role of the US and the dangers to our own national well–being. He examines such questions as what's at stake for us in the global economy, why it is important that the system be equitable and that other countries prosper along with us, and what our goals as a nation should be – long term and short term. Thurow contends that the huge and growing US trade deficit poses grave dangers to the value of the dollar and is putting our own economy in jeopardy. As the world economy leaps national boundaries, its hallmark seems to be a rising instability and a growing inequality between the first and third worlds. Globalization causes riots throughout the world and is one factor in the rise of terrorism against the West. Thurow shows how some nations, including Ireland and China, have embraced the concept of globalization and placed themselves into a position to prosper with growing and productive national economies. He contrasts their positive actions with Japan, whose leaders have allowed the nation to drift into stagnation and have destroyed its prosperity. He argues that this is the time to choose globalization or be left
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Global economics vision, prosperous equitable future.

If you've been feeling the ripples of globalization and wonder what it all means for our collective future, Lester Thurow's "Fortune Favors the Bold" comes as a critical resource. Thurow invites you to consider the potential of a balanced global economy where prosperity isn't just our ambition but a shared international goal. It's especially intriguing for anyone concerned about the US's role in the world markets or seeking enlightened perspectives on steering the global economy towards stability and fairness.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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