Publisher's Synopsis
Using a collective learning approach, this work utilizes the standard of "laissez-faire" free market ideology to analyze global economic change. It focuses on how change is managed in the post-capitalist global economy of the 1990s, stressing the human, strategic and political dimensions.;This work updates and refocuses chapters on the continuing theme of liberalism (Western market-orientated policies) versus post-liberalism (the reactions to policies aimed at preserving cultural integrity, traditions, and security). The book also adds a new chapter on post-war economics which shows how Russia, China and Poland have moved towards market economies and the resistance this has caused. The work also discusses North-North competitiveness focusing on Japan, Germany and the USA, and the kinds of industrial policies necessary to become an economic "superpower". The study aims to provide the environmental perspective, including the Earth Summit at Rio and the notion of sustainable development.
