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Table of contents for The future of capitalism : how today's economic forces shape tomorrow's world / Lester C. Thurow.
Acknowledgments vii
Chapter 1
New Game, New Rules, New Strategies 1
Chapter 2
Mapping the Economic Surface of the Earth 20
Chapter 3
Plate One: The End of Communism 43
Chapter 4
Plate Two: An Era of Man-made Brainpower Industries 65
Chapter 5
Plate Three: Demography-Growing, Moving, Getting Older 88
Chapter 6
Plate Four: A Global Economy 115
Chapter 7
Plate Five: A Multipolar World with No Dominant Power 139
Chapter 8
The Forces Remaking the Economic Surface of the Earth 164
Chapter 9
Inflation: An Extinct Volcano 185
Chapter 10
Japan: The Major Fault Line Across World Trade and
the Pacific Rim 194
Chapter 11
Economic Instability 211
Chapter 12
Social Volcanoes:
Religious Fundamentalism and Ethnic Separatism 232
Chapter 13
Democracy Versus the Market 242
Chapter 14
A Period of Punctuated Equilibrium 279
Chapter 15
Operating in a Period of Punctuated Equilibrium 310
Notes 329
Index 371