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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
  • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins

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From Global to Local

Written by: Finbarr Livesey
Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
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Publisher's Summary

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 50 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.

©2017 Finbarr Livesey (P)2017 Random House Audio

What the critics say

"Refreshing...The future of globalization may be determined less by a rarified battle of ideas than by something as simple as the 3D printer. Finbarr Livesey's book gives a nod to the idea that protectionist politicians are a threat to world trade, but his focus is very largely on the impersonal progress of technology...[He offers] detailed descriptions of individual products and processes he has gleaned through his years of consulting for international companies." (Alan Beattie, Financial Times)

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