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The World in 2020: Power, Culture and Prosperity
The World in 2020 Power Culture and Prosperity Author:Harvard Business School Press In The World in 2020, Hamish McRae offers a bold vision of a world in which developed nations become increasingly able to imitate one another as innovations cross borders within mere days and weeks. In such a world, the best predictor of economic success will not be technological achievement, but rather a nation's creativity and social responsib... more »ility. The emergence of culture and value as sources of competitive edge for industrialized nations signals a profound shift in world order. McRae demonstrates how changes in demography, the environment, the role of government, technology, and natural resources, as well as the costs of social disintegration, will contribute to this new competitive landscape in which, for example, China may come to rival the United States and Japan as a dominant power. Provocative and accessible to the general reader, The World in 2020 shows us not only where we will be in the next 25 years, but how we will get there.« less