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Brave New World Economy: Global Finance Threatens Our Future Hardcover - 2011 - 1st Edition

by Wilhelm Hankel; Robert Isaak


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An engaging look at the road to a sustained economic recovery

The global finance system can be regulated to prevent massive credit fraud, tame capitalism, confront the sovereign debt crisis, and move towards investing in the real economy and full employment. "Obamanomics", and American reinvention can lead to a sustained economic recovery but only together with major domestic, European, and global monetary reforms in cooperation with emerging nations.

For decades, the U.S. dollar has served as the world's reserve currency. But after the global market meltdown and the resulting massive stimulus spending meant to keep the Great Recession from becoming an even Greater Depression, confidence in America's ability to make good on its growing debt is at all-time lows. In Brave New World Economy: Global Finance Threatens Our Future, Wilhelm Hankel and Robert Isaak--two extremely controversial, yet highly respected experts on international economics and management--describe how "Obamanomics," the Euro crisis, and shift of economic growth from the West to emerging economies, if handled properly, can lead to true economic stability and job creation.

  • Highlights America's 'Great Bluff' bail-out strategy to cope with the crisis and the reforms Obamanomics must make to bring about sustainable job recovery
  • Describes the risks and rewards of borrowing from future generations--in the United States, Europe, and the developing world--to save the current generation
  • Details how money became separated from government control and why the interbanking credit system threatens western nations with bankruptcy, undermining pensions, and the human right to work
  • Points out why nation-states need to go back to helping themselves and not rely on the false promises of regional integration and globalization
  • Shows how legalizing underground labor will create more jobs

How we arrived at this economic crossroads isn't as important as the decision as to which path to take. The Brave New World Economy points us in the right direction.

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Praise for Brave New World Economy

"This book will become a must-read for students, scholars, as well as all practitioners who want to understand the root causes ofmarket economy crises and the scope of a more stable and fair world order.This book provides an original and thoughtful angle of analysis and vividly explains why and how each of us will soon be ruined without a new governance system emerging that enables globalization to become a genuinepositive sum game in terms of both time and social horizon."
--Dr. Michel Henry Bouchet, Head, Global Finance Center, SKEMA Business School, former senior economist, The World Bank, former CEO, Owen Stanley Financial SA

"Presents compelling arguments for radical change in theworld monetary system to save our future. Includes bold and practicalrecommendations to meet current challenges of the global economyincluding the need for balance between the regulatory role of thestate for public good and the confidence of investors andentrepreneurs. Jargon free and easy to read."
--Shabbir Cheema, Director, Asia-Pacific Governance and Democracy Initiative, East-West Center

Unrestrained global finance and the massive credit crisis it has engendered threaten to end civilization as we know it. Clearly, a thorough restructuring of the monetary system and more stringent banking rules, both domestically and internationally, can salvage centuries of progress from the scrap heap of history. What steps must policymakers take to achieve a sustainable, new world economy before it's too late? Find out in Brave New World Economy.

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Praise for Brave New World Economy

"This book will become a must-read for students, scholars, as well as all practitioners who want to understand the root causes ofmarket economy crises and the scope of a more stable and fair world order.This book provides an original and thoughtful angle of analysis and vividly explains why and how each of us will soon be ruined without a new governance system emerging that enables globalization to become a genuinepositive sum game in terms of both time and social horizon."
--Dr. Michel Henry Bouchet, Head, Global Finance Center, SKEMA Business School, former senior economist, The World Bank, former CEO, Owen Stanley Financial SA

"Presents compelling arguments for radical change in theworld monetary system to save our future. Includes bold and practicalrecommendations to meet current challenges of the global economyincluding the need for balance between the regulatory role of thestate for public good and the confidence of investors andentrepreneurs. Jargon free and easy to read."
--Shabbir Cheema, Director, Asia-Pacific Governance and Democracy Initiative, East-West Center

Unrestrained global finance and the massive credit crisis it has engendered threaten to end civilization as we know it. Clearly, a thorough restructuring of the monetary system and more stringent banking rules, both domestically and internationally, can salvage centuries of progress from the scrap heap of history. What steps must policymakers take to achieve a sustainable, new world economy before it's too late? Find out in Brave New World Economy.

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  • Title Brave New World Economy: Global Finance Threatens Our Future
  • Author Wilhelm Hankel; Robert Isaak
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley
  • Date 2011-03
  • ISBN 9781118004418 / 1118004418
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.3 x 1 in (22.86 x 16.00 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Economic
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010047423
  • Dewey Decimal Code 332.042

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About the author

Wilhelm Hankel is former Director of the German Economic Finance Ministry, Department of Money and Credit. An internationaleconomist and consultant to centralbanks, his creative theories of money and the global economy, as well as his proven fixesfor stalemated political economies, are illustrated throughout fourteen books.

Robert Isaak is a political economist and the Henry George Professor of International Management at Pace University, in New York. A consultant to businesses such as Siemens and Prudential Intercultural, he has taught at Johns Hopkins SAIS, and New York University, and has been a guest professor of international management at the University of Mannheim, Heidelberg University, the University of Grenoble, and SKEMA Business School, in France. He has authored eleven books on political economy.

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