Thurow, Lester C.

The future of capitalism : how today's economic forces shape tomorrow's world / How today's economic forces shape tomorrow's world. Lester C. Thurow. - New York : W. Morrow & Co., 1996. - x, 385 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-369) and index.

Ch. 1. New Game, New Rules, New Strategies -- Ch. 2. Mapping the Economic Surface of the Earth -- Ch. 3. Plate One: The End of Communism -- Ch. 4. Plate Two: An Era of Man-made Brainpower Industries -- Ch. 5. Plate Three: Demography - Growing, Moving, Getting Older -- Ch. 6. Plate Four: A Global Economy -- Ch. 7. Plate Five: A Multipolar World with No Dominant Power -- Ch. 8. The Forces Remaking the Economic Surface of the Earth -- Ch. 9. Inflation: An Extinct Volcano -- Ch. 10. Japan: The Major Fault Line Across World Trade and the Pacific Rim -- Ch. 11. Economic Instability -- Ch. 12. Social Volcanoes: Religious Fundamentalism and Ethnic Separatism -- Ch. 13. Democracy Versus the Market -- Ch. 14. A Period of Punctuated Equilibrium -- Ch. 15. Operating in a Period of Punctuated Equilibrium.

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Economic forecasting.
Capitalism--Forecasting.
Technological innovations--Economic aspects--Forecasting.
Skilled labor--Forecasting.
International economic relations--Forecasting.
Twenty-first century--Forecasts.


United States--Economic conditions--1981-2001.

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