Amazon.comWith Fortune Favors the Bold: What We Must Do to Build a New and Lasting Global Prosperity, Lester Thurow follows on his bestsellers The Zero-Sum Society and The Future of Capitalism by addressing the path to globalization.Thurow--a Professor of Management and Economics at MIT"s Sloan School--draws uncompromising conclusions: only a bold embrace of globalization will bring prosperity, and nations that fail to engage in global economics will fall behind the world"s dominantpowers.
He sees three simultaneous revolutions that fuel the rush to global business: the birth of knowledge-based industry, the creation of a global economy built on a worldwide information infrastructure, and the victory of capitalism. But Thurow is not naively optimistic about the prospects for prosperity in this new framework. The U.S. trade deficit, the Chinese export economy, the SARS epidemic, and the stagnating Japanese economy all offer real threats to short-term and long-term well-being.
Some readers will be frustrated that Fortune Favors the Bold does not deliver a detailed set of solutions to these impediments to global prosperity, despite Thurow"s thorough research. The U.S. trade deficit, like the absence of international intellectual property rights, he labels a "dilemma": a problem that has no prescriptive answer. Crises will occur, he suggests. The challenge is to prepare for them and manage them well. Thurow urges the creation of new institutions to confront these dilemmas head on, notably the creation of a Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) for governments and major corporations. The CKO will provide a central intelligence to steer nations and corporations through the difficulties of economic revolution. For Thurow, fortunewill favor those leaders who boldly shape globalization and invest in emerging technologies. Those who stand by will be doomed to marginalization. --Patrick O"KelleyBook Description
As the world economy leaps national boundaries, disparities between the rich and poor have become increasingly commonplace. Financial crises in the developing world are more severe, and first-world economies continue to experience frantic boom-and-bust cycles, while imbalances in ongoing globalization continue to play a role in the rise of international terrorism.
In this insightful and forward-looking book, Thurow examines the new global economy, focusing on the role of the United States and the dangers to our own national economic well-being. He considers what"s at stake for us in the global economy, why it"s important that we encourage other countries to prosper, and what our long- and short-term goals as a nation should be. Thurow argues convincingly that it is time for corporations, governments, and citizens to choose globalization or be left behind. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Fortune Favors the Bold : What We Must Do to Build a New and Lasting Global Prosperity (Lester C. Thurow)