Global Turning Points The Challenges for Business and Society in the 21st Century 2nd Edition by Mauro Guillen, Emilio Ontiveros 9781316557679 1316557677

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• ISBN 10: 1316557677

• ISBN 13: 9781316557679

• Author: Mauro Guillen, Emilio Ontiveros

 The second edition of this popular book offers an accessible yet sophisticated analysis of the game-changing events and trends that are transforming the world beyond recognition. For the first time in human history, more people live in cities than in the countryside, and greater numbers suffer from obesity than from hunger. During the next few decades, India will become the biggest country in terms of population, China the largest in output, and the United States the richest among the major economies on a per capita income basis. Food and water shortages will likely become humankind’s most important challenges. With four new chapters on the rise of the global middle class, the transformative power of technology, institutions and the entrepreneurial spirit, and the trials and tribulations of the financial system, this book provides a thorough introduction to the challenges facing business and society in the twenty-first century.

Global Turning Points The Challenges for Business and Society in the 21st Century 2nd Table of contents:

1 Welcome to the twenty-first century
2 A global economy out of balance
Global encounters of the third kind
The most complex crisis in history
Financial services after the crisis
Changes in the distribution of global economic power
3 The rise of the emerging-market multinationals
Taking over major industries
The sovereign wealth funds
Are emerging-market multinationals different?
Sovereignty, political influence, and geopolitics
How emerging-market multinationals are changing the world
4 The new demography: aging, migration, and obesity
Demography in the new century
The economic implications of population aging
The social, cultural, political, and geopolitical consequences
5 From dictatorship to democracy and failed states
Four waves of transition from dictatorship to democracy
Mobile phones, the Internet, and political mobilization
“Good governance” and the irony of diminished state legitimacy and capacity
Failed states
New forms of violent conflict
6 A disparate world: inequality and poverty
The paradox of growing inequality and declining poverty
Gender inequality
The consequences of shifting patterns of global inequality
7 The rise of the global middle class and the high-net-worth elite
Defining and measuring the global middle class
What characterizes the middle-class consumer?
The millionaires
Gender and wealth
8 The transformative power of technology
Information and communications technology
The digital economy
The rise of the collaborative economy
The digital economy and employment
Information technology and the government
Promoting technology and innovation
9 Development, institutions, and entrepreneurship
Enter entrepreneurship
Measuring and tracking institutions
Gender, development, and entrepreneurship
Obstacles to entrepreneurship by women
10 The quest for sustainability
The rise of environmental awareness
Food and water
Energy
Emerging economies and sustainability
Sustainability, competitiveness, and business opportunities
11 The trials and tribulations of the financial system
The crisis and its impact
Traumas and disappointments
Banks will not be what they used to be
Regulation
Technology
Disintermediation
Shifting demographics
The new normal is financial instability
12 The global powers of the twenty-first century
Patterns of rise and decline
From Pax Americana to Pax Sinica?
Chinese views on China’s global ascendancy
Is global influence a zero-sum game?
13 Coping with uncertainty and complexity
The four institutional gearboxes shaping global dynamics
The pervasiveness of financial markets
What is to be done?
References
Index
 

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