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This brilliantly original book dismantles the main assumptions that drive the decisions made by companies and government authorities across the world, to show that our distributed narrative of the global economy is deeply flawed. If kept unexamined, they will lead companies and countries astray, with dire consequences for all of us all. For the past 50 years roughly, the global economy has been operate on three big assumptions: that globalization will continue steadily to propagate, that trade is the engine motor of expansion and development, and this economic electricity is moving from the Western to the East. Recently, it has also been taken as a given that our interconnectedness - both physical and digital - will increase without limit. But imagine if each one of these ideas are wrong? What if everything is about to change? What if it has recently begun to change but we just haven't seen? Increased automation, the arrival of additive creation (3D printing, for example), and changes in transport and environmental stresses, among other factors, are approaching together to create a fast-changing global financial landscape where the rules are being rewritten - at once a challenge and an opportunity for companies and countries as well.
