Global Economic Disparity (eBook)

A Dynamic Force in Geoeconomic Competition of Superpowers

Jae Wan Chung (Autor)

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2015
192 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-9358-7 (ISBN)

Infos

This book explores geoeconomic insights into the global economy of superpowers. In ten chapters, the author explores causal relationships between global economic disparities and historical events, proceeding from the general to the specific.

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The world is a veritable stage for superpowers. Major historical events are best viewed as the outcomes of games played by superpowers for their own economic interests. The objective of this book is to explore the primary cause of global historical events. A global economic disparity (GED) motivates superpowers to pursue their interests and results in the corresponding global historical event (GHE). This book explores the causal relationships between GEDs and GHEs that stand out in recent global history since the first Industrial Revolution, taking a geoeconomic approach which encompasses economics, international political affairs, history, and geography. The book confirms the causalities between GEDs and GHEs. It is a pioneering work that provides a unique but powerful policy implication: in order to alleviate international conflicts and tensions between superpowers, it is necessary to reduce GEDs. And since it is virtually impossible for a few superpowers to reduce the GEDs, the world economy needs a multipolar economic system for global stability through competition.The book was written shortly after the world economy was trapped within downward spirals caused by the US financial crisis and its contagion. As a collective representation of GEDs in various areas, the financial disparity is a central part of GEDs. The book rigorously examines the financial crisis (2008-2014) in the United States and the Fed's response, a program of quantitative easing (QE) implemented in three phases, while bearing in mind that the origin of the current crisis is not solely the financial sector or stock markets, but worldwide economic disequilibrium. This book also focuses on the details for the causal relationships prevailing in several major areas: human resources, raw materials, energy, environment, and poverty.

Autor

Jae Wan Chung is professor emeritus of economics at George Mason University.

Inhalt

Introduction1. Global Economic Disparity2. Global Economy and Superpowers3. Open Economy Macroeconomic Principles and Policy Implications4. Financial Crises in the United States 5. Impact of the U.S. Financial Crisis on Economies of Euro Countries and East Asia 6. Human Resources and Technology7. Raw Materials8. Energy9. Environment, Global Warming and Water Resources10. Food, Population and PovertyConclusions

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.4.2015
• Zusatzinfo: 36 Illustrations including: - 14 Black & White Illustrations; - 22 Tables.
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Finanzwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Schlagworte: climate change • Energy • financial disparity • global economic disparity • Global economic history • global warming • human resources technology • Inequality • international energy markets • Macroeconomics • Open Economy Macroeconomics • Poverty • Quantitative Easing • Raw Materials • Superpowers • trade disparity
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-9358-9 / 0739193589
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-9358-7 / 9780739193587