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    From Global to Local: The Making of Things and the End of Globalization
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    From Global to Local: The Making of Things and the End of Globalization
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    From Global to Local: The Making of Things and the End of Globalization

    Written by Finbarr Livesey

    Narrated by Jonathan Cowley

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    This brilliantly original book dismantles the underlying assumptions that drive the decisions made by companies and governments throughout the world, to show that our shared narrative of the global economy is deeply flawed. If left unexamined, they 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 ideas are wrong? What if everything is about to change? What if it has already begun to change but we just haven't noticed?

    Increased automation, the advent of additive manufacturing (3D printing, for example), and 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 alike.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateSep 19, 2017
    ISBN9780525501626
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    From Global to Local: The Making of Things and the End of Globalization
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    Finbarr Livesey

    Dr Finbarr Livesey was a lecturer in public policy at the University of Cambridge, before which he spent ten years working in the Engineering department at Cambridge. He previously worked in technology development and continues to consult for national governments and multi-national corporations. He died in 2019.

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