THE WORLD
IN 2020
1. Title - The
World in 2020
2. Author - Hamish
McRae
3. Pages - 302
4. Price - Not
Known
5. Published by - Ali
Majeed Printers 107-A Kacha
Rashid Road, Lahore
About the Author
6. Hamish McRae
read economics at Trinity
College, Dublin. He started his career as a journalist
on the Liverpool Post, and was then successively deputy editor of The Banker,
editor of Euromoney and financial editor of the Guardian before moving to the
Independent in 1989, where he is now associate editor. He is co-author, with
his wife Frances
Cairncross, of Capital City:
London as a
Financial Centre. Awards include the Harold Wincott
prize for financial journalism in 1979 and a commendation in the first Amex
Bank Eassy awards in 1987. He is a regular radio broadcaster on LBC and BBC.
About the Book
7. The World in 2020 is a
radical new vision of the way the world is changing. It shows clearly how the
cutting edge will be cultural rather than technological and why originality
will prove as important discipline in
the struggle for dominance. Using analytical tools which reveal the true
potential for growth and social harmony in each country, acclaimed commentator
Hamish McRae shows how demographic change, the costs of social disintegration
and rapidly developing new resources are bringing about profound shifts in the
world order.
Critical Analysis
8. Drawing on the best research
available from Europe, Japan and America on
long-term growth prospects, McRae expounds a highly original vision of the
economic case for good behaviour. As the developed nations become ever more
able to imitate each other innovations cross national boundaries within days
and weeks rather than months and years it will be those countries which can
best combine ingenuity with social order that will emerge triumphant by the
year 2020. Intellectually challenging, accessible to the general reader,
provocative and stimulating, The World in 2020 is an important contribution to
our understanding of the world as it is now and how it will change.
9. Author has divided the book
into three parts:-
a. Part I. In first part author
has explained the factors which make some country and nation grow. Then the
author has given present and future picture of North
America, Europe and East Asia. He has explained his view point with the help
of tables and graphs.
b. Part II. In this part author
has discussed the forces which will bring change in the world. He has discussed
demography, resources and environments, Financial, Technology, Govt and society
in detail.
c. Part III. Author has given a
picture of world in 2020. Then he has explained the position of North America, Europe
and East Asia in future.
Comments
10. The "book The World in
2020" is a rare combination of economics, political Judgment and human
values. It clearly indicates that how the world would be in 2020. What factors
will contribute towards changes, how the priorities will change? What will be
the economic and political position of different countries of the world. The
book is recommended to be read by officers of all ranks, specially young
officers.
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