This book presents Harry S. Dent Jr.’s predictions of a looming major economic downturn based on demographic, financial, and market-cycle analysis. Dent argues that structural shifts in consumer spending, aging populations, and excessive debt will trigger a global economic crash and reshape financial markets. The book provides strategic guidance for investors and individuals seeking to naviga…
The World Economic Forum is an independent, international organization committed to improving the state of the world. The Forum provides a collaborative framework for the world's leaders to address global issues, engaging particularly its corporate members in global citizenship. Drawing on its unparalleled Asian network, this book offers a fascinating insight into how the region is managing …
Asian Megatrends assesses the key drivers impacting Asia over the next two decades. The rise of China is transforming the Asia-Pacific, as China’s economic and military might increasingly reverberates throughout the region. India and Indonesia are also rising Asian powers that are changing the shape of the Asian economic landscape. The rapid growth of emerging Asian consumer markets is becomi…
In Global Paradox, John Naisbitt explores the new global environment of the 1990s and the enormous opportunities and challenges that countries, businesses and individuals will face in this period of growth and transformation at the end of the millennium.
In Global Paradox, John Naisbitt explores the new global environment of the 1990s and the enormous opportunities and challenges that countries, businesses and individuals will face in this period of growth and transformation at the end of the millennium.
In The World in 2020, acclaimed commentator and best-selling author Hamish McRae paints a vivid competitive landscape in which culture and values will be the new sources of advantage for the industrialized nations. In the year 2020, all having embraced market capitalism, the North American, European and East Asian countries will be engaged in fierce economic competition. With each nation increa…
The club of Rome was founded in 1968, the year of the great divide which marked the end, as well as the zenith, of the headlong post-war period of economic growth in the industrialized world. At present, the Club comprises one hundred individuals from fifty-three countries. It has no political ambition.
The contents of this book: Part 1 Bubble Trouble Part 2 Fuzzy Math Part 3 Victors and Spoils Part 4 When Market Go Bad
The authors believe that the world is on the brink of cataclysmic social and political change to be brought about by a world-wide economic depression. A guide for individuals, businesses and institutions, the authors offer investment tips and a whole strategy for survival. Some of the things they predict are: higher taxes; migrations away from big cities; decriminalization of drugs in order to …
Contents: 1. The next industrial revolution 2. Reinventing the wheels: Hypercars and neighborhoods 3. Waste not 4. Making the world 5. Building blocks 6. Tunneling through the cost barrier etc.