From global to local the making of things and the end of globalisation
By: Livesey, Finbarr
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Profile Books, c2017.Description: 210 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781782832607; 9781101871225; 9781781256596; 1101871229Subject(s): International trade | Globalization | Manufacturing industries | Technological innovations | Sustainable developmentDDC classification: 382 LI FR Online resources: Location MapItem type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 382 LI FR (Browse shelf) | Available | T0058540 |
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382 JA BE Best Trading Strategies: : | 382 KE GA The gains from trade and the gains from aid : | 382 KV GL The global emerging market : | 382 LI FR From global to local | 382 MA IN International trade | 382 RE GU Regulations and international trade : | 382 SE EX Export-import theory, practices, and procedures / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Go East, young man?
2. From putting out to getting out
3.̀Tea, Earl Grey, hot,' or How we will make
4. All hail our robot overlords
5. Getting from A to NA in a hilly world
6. Manufacturing the environment
7. Looking through the other end of the telescope
8. Mapping the fracture between the physical and the digital
9. The changing politics of manufacturing.
This brilliantly original book dismantles the underlying assumptions that drive the decisions made by companies and governments the world over to show that our shared narrative of the global economy is deeply flawed and, if left unexamined, will lead corporations and countries astray, with dire consequences for us all. For the past fifty years or so, the global economy has been run on three big assumptions: that globalization will continue to spread; that trade is the engine of growth and development; and that economic power is moving from the West to the East. More recently, it has also been taken as a given that our interconnectedness--both physical and digital--will increase without limit. But what if all these assumptions are wrong? What if everything is about to change? Indeed, what if it has already started to change but we just haven't noticed? Increased automation, the advent of additive manufacturing (3D printing, for example), changes in shipping and environmental pressures, among other factors, are coming together to create a fast-changing global economic landscape in which the rules are being rewritten--at once a challenge and an opportunity for companies and countries.