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From Global to Local: The Making of Things and the End of Globalization

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This brilliantly original book dismantles the underlying assumptions that drive the decisions made by companies and governments all through the world, to show that our shared narrative of the global economy is deeply wrong. If left unexamined, they’ll lead corporations and countries astray, with dire consequences for us all.

For the past fifty 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 for the reason that our interconnectedness—both physical and digital—will increase without limit.  But what if these kind of ideas are flawed? What if the whole lot 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, as an example), and changes in shipping and environmental pressures, among other factors, are coming together to create a fast-changing global economic landscape wherein the rules are being rewritten—at once a challenge and a chance for companies and countries alike.

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