The age of stagnation : why perpetual growth is unattainable and the global economy is in peril /
"The global economy is entering an era of protracted stagnation, similar to what Japan has experienced for over a decade. That is the message of this brilliant and controversial summary of our current economic predicament from an internationally respected consultant and commentator on financial...
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Amherst, New York :
Prometheus Books,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Reality bites
- Great expectations: postwar booms and busts
- Borrowed times: causes of the global financial crisis and the Great Recession
- Escape velocity: the power and impotence of economic policies
- The end of growth: the factors driving secular stagnation and the new mediocre
- Running on empty: the resource and environmental constraints on growth
- Circling the wagons: globalization in reverse
- Bric(es) to bits: the rise and fall of emerging markets
- Economic apartheid: the impact of rising inequality on growth
- The end of trust: how a democracy deficit harms economic activity
- Collateral damage: the fallout for ordinary lives
- Epilogue: final orders.