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Asia's role in reshaping capitalism and saving the planet
Consumption has been for many years the fuel that drives the engine of global capitalism. The recent financial crisis has seen the west's leading economists and policy makers urging Asia to make a conscious effort to consume more and thereby help save the global economy. This is a view shaped b conventional wisdom which conveniently refuses to acknowledge both the undesirable effects of consumption and the limits to growth.
In Consumptionomics, one of Asia's leading sources of new ideas, Chandran Nair, tackles head-on what is certain to prove the most controversial political challenge of the next two decades,
Consumptionomics argues that the blinkered conventional view needs to be replaced by a more rational approach to such challenges. If Asians were to achieve consumption levels taken for granted in the West the results would be environmentally catastrophic across the globe. Needless to say, it would also have significant geopolitical impacts as nations scramble for diminishing resources. Asian government and leaders find themselves with a dilemma. The solutions will entail making sensitive political choices and adopting certain forms of government to affect a fundamental change of direction. If Asia is willing to take on this responsibility it will help to save the planet whilst reshaping capitalism.
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- Title Consumptionomics
- Author Chandran Nair
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 206
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley
- Date 2011-02
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780470828571 / 0470828579
- Weight 1.16 lbs (0.53 kg)
- Dimensions 9.27 x 6.33 x 0.84 in (23.55 x 16.08 x 2.13 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Asian - General
- Library of Congress subjects Asia - Foreign economic relations, Asia - Economic policy
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012360426
- Dewey Decimal Code 381.340
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Citations
- Poder Hispanic, 08/01/2011, Page 24
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