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c2012., Adult, Random House Canada Call No: 338.9 R896e Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: n an urgent follow-up to his best-selling Why your world is about to get a whole lot smaller , Jeff Rubin argues that the end of cheap oil means the end of growth. What it will be like to live in a world where growth is over? Economist and resource analyst Jeff Rubin is certain that the world's governments are getting it wrong. Instead of moving us toward economic recovery, measures being taken around the globe right now are digging us into a deeper hole. Both politicians and economists are missing the fact that the real engine of economic growth has always been cheap, abundant fuel and resources. But that era is over. The end of cheap oil, Rubin argues, signals the end of growth--and the end of easy answers to renewing prosperity. Rubin's own equation is clear: with China and India sucking up the lion's share of the world's ever more limited resources, the rest of us will have to make do with less. But is this all bad? Can less actually be more? Rubin points out that there is no research to show that people living in countries with hard-charging economies are happier, and plenty of research to show that some of the most contented people on the planet live in places with no-growth or slow-growth GDPs. But it doesn't matter whether it's bad or good, it's the new reality: our world is not only about to get smaller, our day-to-day lives are about to be a whole lot different.
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-- Next hundred years.c2009., Doubleday Call No: 303.49 F911n Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2011., Adult, Doubleday Call No: 909.83 F899n Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Next 100 Years now focuses his geopolitical forecasting acumen on the next decade and the imminent events and challenges that will test America and the world, specifically addressing the skills that will be required by the decade<U+2019>s leaders. The next ten years will be a time of massive transition. The wars in the Islamic world will be subsiding, and terrorism will become something we learn to live with. China will be encountering its crisis. We will be moving from a time when financial crises dominate the world to a time when labor shortages will begin to dominate. The new century will be taking shape in the next decade. In The Next Decade, George Friedman offers readers a pro<U+00AD>vocative and endlessly fascinating prognosis for the immedi<U+00AD>ate future. Using Machiavelli<U+2019>s The Prince as a model, Friedman focuses on the world<U+2019>s leaders --particularly the American president -- and with his trusted geopolitical insight analyzes the complex chess game they will all have to play. The book also asks how to be a good president in a decade of extraordinary challenge, and puts the world<U+2019>s leaders under a microscope to explain how they will arrive at the decisions they will make -- and the consequences these actions will have for us all." --From the publisher.
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-- Oil and the end of globalization.c2009., Random House Canada Call No: 330.9 R896w Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
