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Informationen zum Autor Claude V. Chang teaches economics at Johnson & Wales University, North Miami Campus. Chang was a member of the Governing Council of the University of Guyana, served as Secretary to the Treasury of Guyana, and as ex-officio member of the Board of the Guyana Central Bank. He is a former UNDP consultant and has over twenty years of finance experience in the private sector of the US and abroad. Klappentext This book offers a frank and honest assessment of the opportunities and challenges ahead for both the US and the wider world, examining the leading economic, political, and social issues in the context of the several rational choice theories and the emergence of challenges to entrenched Western interests. Zusammenfassung This book offers a frank and honest assessment of the opportunities and challenges ahead for both the US and the wider world! examining the leading economic! political! and social issues in the context of the several rational choice theories and the emergence of challenges to entrenched Western interests. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Figures Chapter 2 Tables Chapter 3 Preface Chapter 4 Acknowledgement Chapter 5 Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 6 Chapter 2 Economic Quagmire: The Impossible Trinity of Mounting Debt, Balanced-trade, and a Strong Dollar Chapter 7 Chapter 3 Free-market Capitalism in Terminal Crisis Chapter 8 Chapter 4 The 1990s: American Triumphalism on Steroids Chapter 9 Chapter 5 The Conflict of Rationality, Reductionism and Existentialism Chapter 10 Chapter 6 The Abiding Tension between Capitalism and Equality Chapter 11 Chapter 7 China on the World Stage Chapter 12 Chapter 8 Targeted Revaluation: A Double-edged Sword? Chapter 13 Chapter 9 Biting the Bullet: A Concluding Perspective Chapter 14 Bibliography Chapter 15 Index
